Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Mobile EV charging for AAA members in parts of Mass.
The Massachusetts cities of Avon, Peabody and West Springfield will be home to AAA's expansion of its mobile EV charging service, reports Green Car Reports. AAA first added EV charging to its map services in 2012.
A Quebec-to-US hydropower line is actually getting built, but it goes to New York
Construction has begun on the 339-mile Champlain Hudson Power Express, which will deliver Canadian hydropower to New York City, reports Canary Media (here). It won't benefit us in New England, unlike the power that would have come down through defunct Northern Pass in...
HydroQuebec power link in Maine inches ahead
AP - Maine’s highest court on Tuesday upheld the lease for a small section of state land for a $1 billion electric transmission corridor, a victory for developers who hope to complete the project. (Note: this is the project that was launched after New Hampshire...
‘Age-friendly’ development might defuse old-timers’ NIMBY reflex
Seniors - people in my age group - are often an obstacle to intelligent town planning. We don't like change and we're afraid that weird things like bike lanes and housing that's different than single-family homes on big lots will "ruin the neighborhood character" and...
Climate Change Makes Things Worse, Part MCXLVII: The avalanche edition
If there’s one thing you want when heading into the backcountry in winter, it’s predictability. But that one thing is becoming harder to get. “We’re finding in the last five years that (it is) much harder to get accurate longer-range forecasts due to the weather...
NH patents through Nov. 27
The US Patent Service has changed the way it reports patents and we can no longer include direct links to each patent. You can find them here, using the patent number. By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire...
Tearing down Vermont Yankee (including its radioactive water)
Bloomberg has an article (here it is) about tearing down Vermont Yankee. Apparently it's going better than planned - the site may be ready for redevelopment by late 2026, four years earlier than planned. This detail surprised me: "There’s 1.2 million gallons that were...
Vermont ready to join Calif., ban sale of new gas cars by 2035
Vermont is a tiny auto market and its decisions have little national repercussions but this (as reported by the VT DIgger via Valley News) is still impressive - it may join the program adopted by California in August: State regulators are on the cusp of adopting a...
Bio-based (mostly wood product) 3D-printed home unveiled at the University of Maine
Interesting project at UMaine. (Full story here) The 600-square-foot prototype features 3D-printed floors, walls and roof of wood fibers and bio-resins. The house is fully recyclable and highly insulated with 100% wood insulation and customizable R-values....
Coping with climate change shows up even in golf carts
Nobody in their right mind can downplay the unfolding disaster of the climate emergency now that global evidence has, unfortunately, become overwhelming. But there’s still plenty of room for debate about how we should react. A perfect example occurred at the Concord...