Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Crunching numbers shows that interstate expansion …
(Note: This is the first article of a two-parter, as cleverly shown by the ellipses in the headline. The follow-up is here.) It’s time for another holiday weekend, which means it’s time for Concord residents to tear their hair out trying to get from one part of the...
… isn’t worth it, monetarily or climate-ically
(This is the second of a two-parter. The first part is here.) This is a follow-up to a column that ran in Sunday’s Monitor, where I crunched some numbers from the Traffic Data Management System to quantify how I-93 through Concord gets jammed up on certain days. Among...
N.H. patents through Sept. 4
By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire through Sept. 4. *** Hypertherm Assigned Patent for Cost Effective Cartridge Hypertherm, Hanover, New Hampshire, has been assigned a patent (No. 11,432,393, initially...
Manchester biofab cluster gets $44 million
This is an edited (a lot of guff-filled quotes removed) press release from the U.S. Commerce Department: Today (Friday, Sept. 2) President Biden will announce the BioFabrication Cluster as one of 21 winners of the $1 billion Build Back Better Regional Challenge, the...
New England wonders how to improve the grid
New Hampshire has joined most of New England in a "joint initiative to explore investment in electric transmission infrastructure needed to better integrate clean energy resources such as, but not limited to, offshore wind, while improving the reliability, resilience,...
U-L: “Have we reached a tipping point on climate change?”
The Union-Leader's news pages are quite different from its opinion page, especially the political opinion, thank goodness. A good example is in today's paper: A sober look at the reality of climate change by long-time reporter Shawne Wickham in today's paper is an...
Hiking to find Big Trees (with a guidebook)
It sounds deep and zen-like to say it’s the journey rather than the arrival that matters but let’s be honest: It’s more fun to end up somewhere interesting. Like at a really big tree. Trees are awesome creatures even if you don’t hug them – but for me, the larger they...
Not just cougars; we can argue about whether wolves are here, too!
As regular readers know, I am very, very, VERY skeptical that any mountain lions exist in New Hampshire despite the constant parade of "I know what I saw!" I await no actual evidence - game camera shots, prey killed in ways that cougars do it, DNA from scat or hair...
Would a Northeast hydrogen hub be good? bad? something else?
The question of where hydrogen fits into the clean-energy future is complicated and I don't really understand what parts are good and what are bad. It's all so nebulous and theoretical right now that it's easy to make compelling-sounding arguments which paint it as a...
Science Cafe NH tries to decide what to do
Personally, I am done with hosting monthly Science Cafe events in person. A decade of that was enough! I may host the occasional event, like the one we held at the Market Days festival on Main Street in Concord this summer, but that's it. SCNH folks based in Nashua...
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