Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Saving native plants required native-plant seeds, which isn’t as easy as it sounds
If you’re anything like my wife and me, you recently purchased at least one packet of seeds to plant in your flower box, garden or other controlled-vegetation spot. And if you’re anything like us, you didn’t think about where the seeds came from. Seeds just seem to...
That hydrogen plant coming to the North Country is still vague
I have written a couple times about Q Hydrogen, the Utah firm that bought a closed mill in Groveton and says they're converting it to make hydrogen with a new technology. They've never been clear about what the technology involves, although patents show some hints,...
Surveillance of Vermont wildlife finds no SARS-CoV2, surprisingly
Spotted via Reddit, a paper about seeking COVID-19 virus in Vermont wildlife. (Paper is here ion the preprint server bioRxiv) 739 nasal or throat samples were collected from wildlife throughout the state during the 2021 and 2022 harvest season. Data was collected...
N.H. patents through April 30
(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 April 30. *** Handgun and Magazine Therefor SIG SAUER INC., Newingtion, New Hampshire has been...
Transactive energy rate – another step to ‘electrify everything’
The “electrify everything” movement that wants to switch homes, cars, industry and everything else from fossil fuels to electricity is a necessary step to avoid total climate disaster but it raises a real concern: How in the world are we going to generate all that...
N.H. patents through April 23
(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 April 23. *** Pool Filter Cover LARSON DESIGN, LLC, Pembroke, New Hampshire has been assigned...
Can 14,252 ticks be wrong?
If you’ve been outside in any snow-free location lately, it doesn’t take an analysis of 14,252 ticks collected from all over New Hampshire to tell you that everybody’s least favorite arachnid is back – in fact, it never left. But if you want confirmation, BeBop Labs,...
Maine jury overturns ban on Quebec hydropower line
I'm sure the "perfect is the enemy of the good" environmentalists will look for more legal blockades, but good news from Maine: A jury has unanimously ruled that the the Quebec hydropower line through that state the one that was proposed when we nixed Northern Pass in...
Your cat – yes, yours – is a wildlife-slaughtering machine; keep it indoors
I love cats but they are wildlife-slaughtering machines that should not be let outdoors. Even your cute will Fluffball who has never brought a dead bird or chipmunk into the house - she kills things, too. I've made this argument several times over the years and also...
Mass. community geothermal heat-pump project moving ahead
Eversource may turn on its pilot program to set up a community-wide geothermal heat pump system in Framingham, Mass., this year. A lot of folks will be watching. The project is pretty straightforward - it's district heating that sends water instead of fossil fuels to...
Return to the Concord Monitor