The onslaught of the climate emergency has made nuclear power a lot more attractive to make people because it can be a big source of carbon-free power. The downsides are still there - especially waste disposal, very high cost and long construction times, fear of...

Resurrecting a tree species is not for the impatient. It’s been more than two decades since I first encountered efforts in New Hampshire to bring back the American chestnut, a magnificent tree that filled Appalachian forests until a blight wiped it out in the early...

Elsewhere on this week's blog/newsletter you'll see my latest piece about efforts to create a blight-resistant chestnut tree. After I field it, I encountered this fascinating bit of research looking at how and whether birds, carrying chestnuts, could spread such a...

Do you know what "frazil ice" is? Then you're smarter than me - I only learned yesterday while reporting about Concord's net-metering purchase of 9 million KWH of power from a local hydropower plant: The article is here.

By Targeted News Service WASHINGTON – The following federal patents were assigned in New Hampshire from June 12 through June 19. *** Parallel Wireless Assigned Patent for Base Station Power Management Parallel Wireless, Nashua, New Hampshire, has been assigned a...

A few years back, as part of my drive to create a historical highway marker honoring the creation of the BASIC computer language, I complained that too many of New Hampshire's highway historical markers focus on buildings, bridges and politicians; very repetitive....

One of the many ways we need to change society to reduce damage to the planet is to replace concrete and steel in buildings with engineered lumber, a.k.a. cross-laminated timber. That's a term for panels or timbers made from layering small pieces of lumber in...