Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Over-the-air TV is getting an upgrade to become sort of interactive
An interesting upgrade is happening right now to a technology that you have used all of your life, but I would bet dollars to donuts that you have no idea it exists. I didn’t until recently. I refer to ATSC 3.0, rebranded as NextGen TV, which has the option of...
Maine & Canada are trying to keep Atlantic salmon runs (NH has given up)
Although New Hampshire has given up its efforts to return Atlantic salmon to our rivers, efforts are continuing in Maine and eastern Canada. The federal agency NOAA ruled Monday that one of the last wild Atlantic salmon runs in the country, on the Kennebec River in...
What’s old is new again, vinyl edition
I don't know how geeky it is, but I did a profile of a large, booming record (as in LP) store in the center of Concord. I sold him most of my vinyl last year and got far more than I expected! Pitchfork sells plenty of brand-new records, as well, both reissues of...
N.H. patents through April 2
(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 April 2. *** Luminescent Cold Shield Paneling for Infrared Camera Continuous Non-Uniformity...
Community power is set to go in NH and for-profit folks would like a bit of the action
The Valley News has an article (here it is) about the arrival of community power in NH, which lets towns/cities buy power on the wholesale market and sell it to residents. While the non-profit Coalition of New Hampshire has gotten most of the attention, there are...
Sometimes getting the power back on quickly takes a big (telescoping) stick
NOTE: You can see lots of Geoff Forester's photos at the Monitor version of this article (here). Many good ideas seem obvious once somebody has thought of them. RapidPole is a good example. “It’s kind of surprising that something like this hasn’t been done already,”...
All N.H. counties grew in population (a little bit)
People are continuing to move into New Hampshire, fueling a small population increase that was seen in all 10 of the state’s counties in the 12 months leading up to last July, according to new population estimates from the Census Bureau. “New Hampshire was one of the...
Engineered lumber building coming to Concord
Business boosters are excited about the expansion of biotech firm United Therapeutics in New Hampshire but the corporate hangar it will build at Concord Municipal Airport is exciting for another reason: Glulam. Lots and lots of glulam. “The entire skeleton and truss...
Our forest debate (keep or cut?) plays out around a pristine lake
New Hampshire has always been of two minds about our forests: Do we keep or do we cut? Forests shape our economy and we want to use them, but they define our personality as much as anything does and we want to enjoy them. Those two desires have been in conflict for...
Electric buses take a bow in their NH/VT tour
Vermont Clean Cities and Granite State Clean Cities, in collaboration with Clean Energy NH and the electric school bus maker BYD, took some Class D electric school buses on tours around the two states recently. In New Hampshire, public demonstration events were held...
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