Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
It’s not tech or medical magic that has kept a nasty deer disease out of New Hampshire
This post tells the story of a nasty disease that was heading toward New Hampshire but has been kept away by low-tech, sensible actions which have been adopted even though they inconvenience some people. Any comparison to our experience with COVID is left as an...
N.H. patents through May 7
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through May 7. *** Display Screen With Animated Graphical User Interface BOTTOMLINE TECHNOLOGIES, INC,...
NH firm makes undersea fiber cables
The Union-Leaderhas a good profile of a Newington, NH, company that makes undersea cables for data transmission. It's in a factory that once made coax cable for TV. Today, SubCom is one of three “key players that dominated the global submarine cables market in 2022,”...
Call it Cousin of Northern Pass
Five years after Northern Pass died there's another proposal on the books to bring Quebec hydropower through New Hampshire, but along a different route with different owners and a different financial setup. The 211-mile proposal, about 135 miles of which is in New...
Old Man of the Mountain still lives inside computers, even if not on Cannon Mountain
For a century, up until it crumbled 20 years ago, the Old Man of the Mountain could be viewed because it was held together by chains, spikes and geologists scrambling over the face of Cannon Mountain. Now it can be viewed again, but this time because of drones, old...
Another reason to keep your cat indoors: Avian flu
The arrival of spring means that your animals want to go outside, not just dogs and cats but the increasing number of backyard chickens that are tired of being literally cooped up. Yet there’s a reason to think twice: Highly pathogenic avian flu, which is not only...
Wildlife tracking via nanotags, two years later
American kestrel #42329 spent its winter around Masonboro Island on the southern coast of North Carolina, before starting its annual flight north on April 14. On its way toward New Hampshire, it was tracked in Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts,...
Saving native plants required native-plant seeds, which isn’t as easy as it sounds
If you’re anything like my wife and me, you recently purchased at least one packet of seeds to plant in your flower box, garden or other controlled-vegetation spot. And if you’re anything like us, you didn’t think about where the seeds came from. Seeds just seem to...
That hydrogen plant coming to the North Country is still vague
I have written a couple times about Q Hydrogen, the Utah firm that bought a closed mill in Groveton and says they're converting it to make hydrogen with a new technology. They've never been clear about what the technology involves, although patents show some hints,...
Surveillance of Vermont wildlife finds no SARS-CoV2, surprisingly
Spotted via Reddit, a paper about seeking COVID-19 virus in Vermont wildlife. (Paper is here ion the preprint server bioRxiv) 739 nasal or throat samples were collected from wildlife throughout the state during the 2021 and 2022 harvest season. Data was collected...
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