Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
N.H. patents through Nov. 5
(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. 5. *** System and Method for Powering a Device DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED...
Logan airport is testing airplanes’ wastewater for viruses
The Boston site for Axios news service has an article saying that Logan Airport has begun testing wastewater from incoming planes, looking for viruses. (Full story, although it's quite short, is here.) They'll look for "pathogens like the flu, RSV and COVID-19" just...
No weather normal any more: New England’s peak electric usage was in September
ISO-New England reports that for the first time since 1983, before air conditioning really took off in New England, the region saw its annual peak occur outside the three summer months: Consumer demand for electricity reached 24,016 MW on September 7, a reflection of...
Circle the Area Code wagons and protect the 603 at all costs!
Worried that the growth of telephone numbers means an iconic symbol of New Hampshire might be elbowed aside in a few years, Gov. Chris Sununu is telling the state to “investigate durable strategies … for lengthening the useful life of the 603 Area Code.” His executive...
Sununu says All hands on deck to protect 603 Area Code!
Worried that the growth of telephone numbers means an iconic symbol of New Hampshire might be elbowed aside in a few years, Gov. Sununu is telling the state to “investigate durable strategies … for lengthening the useful life of the 603 Area Code.” His...
PAL-V flying car “nears delivery milestone”
Flying cars have lost most of their cutting-edge coolness to drones and electric aircraft. Nothing reflected this more than the way Terrafugia, the MIT spinoff that worked on a flying car in Massachusetts and New Hampshire for years, saw it turned into a...
NH is shrinking, the higher-education chapter
The number of students enrolled full time in the state’s public colleges and universities dropped 13.6 percent from 2019 to the 2022-2023 school year, according to a University of System of New Hampshire annual board report released last month. Nationally, enrollment...
If it wasn’t for people moving here (especially from Massachusetts), NH would be shrinking
The latest chapter in New Hampshire demographics reads like the other chapters over the past half-decade: More people are dying here than are being born, with the difference made up by people moving here from out of state. As often as not, “from out of state” means...
Quebec powerline to NH (no, not Northern Pass) gets federal support
A transmission line that would bring Canada hydropower into New Hampshire and also let New England send power north is one of three projects to get federal support, part of a $1.3 billion commitment designed to increase the nation’s ability to move electricity around...
N.H. patents through Oct. 29
(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 Oct. 29. *** Flow Meter and Related Method DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED...
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