Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
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...
Town rejects move to end its solar panel tax break
Voters at Boscawen town meeting on Saturday overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to end the town's property tax break for solar panels. (It's at the bottom of this story by a reporter who sat through *all six hours* of the meeting!) The vote was 99-38. Boscawen is among...
N.H. patents through March 26
(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 March 26. *** Methods for Serving Interactive Content to a User YIELDMO, INC., Nashua, New...
COVID can cause ‘face blindness’ says Dartmouth researchers
COVID-19 can cause difficulty recognizing faces and navigational problems, according to a new Dartmouth study in Cortex. You can read Dartmouth News report here: It’s widely known that COVID-19 can cause a range of neurological problems, including the loss of smell...
The pandemic is dead; long live the endemic
The pandemic is dead. Long live the endemic. Wishful thinking? No, more like a not-as-good-as-it-sounds prediction. The good part is that the Monitor’s COVID Tracker is prepared, at long last, to call the pandemic over in New Hampshire. Several factors led to this...
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