Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Rhode Island wind farm starts construction
Off the coast of Rhode Idland, Revolution Wind. a joint venture between Ørsted and Eversource, has started building a 704 MW wind farm in Rhode Island Sound south of Point Judith. It will send power to Rhode Island and Connecticut. Quonset, R.I., is going to be a...
Another climate change measurement: The UNH ginkgo tree
Many ginkgo trees are famous for dropping all their leaves at once - whomp! - after the first hard frost. There's one tree on the Durham campus of UNH and people have kept records on its leaf-drop day since the 1970s. This year's drop was the latest on record, as...
NH patents through Nov. 19
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Nov. 19. *** Guided Munition Systems for Detecting Off-Axis Targets BAE...
NH Audubon: Where are all the birds?
New Hampshire Audubon has a long post responding to some people who are alarmed that they've seen very few birds at their feeders this year, especially this fall. The post is here. tl'dr - it's not avian flu, it's this year's weather. Warm and rainy summer means...
NHPR: Dean Kamen has complicated financial ties with his biotech non-profit
NH Public Radio's Todd Bookman has a long, detailed piece out today (here it is) detailing the complicated (and maybe eyebrow-raising) financial benefits that inventor Dean Kamen's private firms get from the federally funded non-profit ARMI: The federal government is...
Burlington faces the same wood haters (who indirectly boost natural gas) that Hanover did
UPDATE: The city council supported the plan, 6-4, voting "to institute a measure that would capture more of the power McNeil Generating Station cannot use currently, through waste heat, steam and an electric boiler, and pipe it underground to large entities like the...
Another climate migrant: Fiddler crabs
New Hampshire Bulletin looks at yet another species that is moving north as weather warms: Fiddler crabs. Johnson uses the term “climate migrants” when referring to species like fiddler crabs, blue crabs, and black sea bass, all creatures that have seen expanded...
No dickory or dock, but hickory trees could (should?) be making a resurgence
The Valley News has a story about small efforts to get farmers and others to look at hickory trees, especialy the Yellowbud variety, as a potential nut crop as well as a tree that's resilient in the face of the climate emergency. (The full story is here) Taking...
NH patents through Nov. 12
(Links to each patent can be found here, using the patent number or inventor’s name.) By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Nov. 12. *** Hockey Stick With Variable Geometry Shaft and Paddle BAUER...
Only half of overdose deaths get autopsied in NH due to shortage of pathologists
New Hampshire Bulletin has a good piece about how a shortage of pathologists means that only half of overdose deaths in the state get an autopsy. The full story is here. Why is an accurate cause of death so important? Death certifications have public health and data...
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