Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
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...
Coal-fired power plant fails, for the first time, to win in regional power auction
For the first time, the coal-fired power plant in Bow has failed to win funding from an annual program designed to guarantee future electricity supplies. Bids from two coal generators at Merrimack Station were passed over in the forward capacity auction...
There are so many bears now that hunting rules are changing
People are seeing a lot more bears in New Hampshire these days and bear hunters are having a lot more success, to the point that Fish and Game wants to change the way they oversee the season. Among a set of proposed changes to hunting regulations that will be the...
How do they forecast avalanche danger? All snow looks the same to me
Last week’s dramatic rescue of a skier who was buried in snow for 6 minutes in Carter Notch was a reminder, if one is needed, that paying attention to avalanche forecasts is vital in the White Mountains backcountry during winter. But that raises a question: How do...
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