I'm leery about giving too much attention to ways for consumers to shop in a "green" fashion because our pollution problems are much too big for individual actions to solve them. Emphasizing personal responsibility has become a way for corporations and governments to...

AI language models are, at heart, statistical echoes of what humans have written in the past. Human writing inherently has political slant so it's no surprise that ChatGPT and the like have political slant - they're just echoing us. But the slant differs among models,...

From NH Agricultural Esperiment Station: New England is one of the least food insecure regions in the United States, with New Hampshire consistently ranking among the most food secure. However, averages can obscure significant variability that can occur among...

(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 Aug. 6. *** Networking Module for Instrumentation and Control Devices...

I thought the future wasn't settled yet for the HVDC line bringing Quebec hydropower into Maine, but the company has resumed work, according to this AP story. The cost of the project, originally estimated at around $1 billion, has grown to $1.5 billion as litigation...

I’m sure you’d like to hear a little bit of good news these days, so how about this: At a time when pedestrian deaths are soaring in this country, New Hampshire has the best record of any state by a pretty good margin. Don’t get too carried away with your high-fives;...

(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 July 30. *** Medical Pump DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Manchester,...

The big two of renewable energy - solar and wind - are weather-dependent on a minute-by-minute basis and the other big one, hydropower, is dependent on it over the course of weeks and months. So it makes sense that ISO-New England, which runs the six-state power grid,...

Perhaps my favorite of all the columns I've written in three decades concerns the visitor who complained that New Hampshire's hiking trails were too rough and that we should smooth them out. Here it is from 2017. New Hampshire Bulletin, the excellent online-only...