Sci/tech tidbits in and around New Hampshire
Manchester is NH’s grid leader
Thanks to digital mapping, it's possible to calculate how grid-like any city's street layout can be. This story in The Economist explains it: Geoff Boeing of the University of Southern California created a measure of city “entropy”, looking at how consistent the...
N.H. patents through Dec. 25 (w/ no Santa jokes)
(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 Dec. 25. *** Pre-Assembled Coupling Assemblies With Pipe Fitting ASC ENGINEERED SOLUTIONS,...
N.H. bitcoin advocate convicted of fraud
(The Union-Leader has more details here, although you may hit the paywall) Associated Press: A New Hampshire man was convicted Thursday of running an unlicensed bitcoin exchange business and laundering over $10 million in proceeds of romance scams and other internet...
Biochar facility moving ahead in Maine
Northern New England should be going whole-hog into production of biochar from low-grade wood - it's the perfect replacement for the shrinking pulp and paper mill industry. I've written about a Maine operation in the past - MaineBiz has an upgrade (here), involving...
Tapeworm makes it from moose to hunters, possibly via dogs
Two hunters in New Hampshire have become infected with a tapeworm found in dogs, apparently the first time it has been found in people: The tapeworm that the hunters had been infected with was identified as the species Echinococcus granulosus, also known as the...
House fire from ‘thermal runaway’ in battery backup
A woman was injured Saturday in a fire apparently caused by the failure of her home’s battery backup system after the power went out in Sanbornton, an example of a new concern for fire departments and building inspectors. “We’re going to have growing...
Prepping for electric school buses (and hopefully V2G)
A few New Hampshire school districts are getting ready to enter the electric transportation era, which means they have to figure out a pretty basic question: How to get the electricity. Once that’s solved, they will get to ponder a more interesting question: How to...
N.H. patents through Dec. 18
(Linkes 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 Dec. 18. *** System, Method, and Apparatus for Electronic Patient Care DEKA PRODUCTS LIMITED...
NH launches wastewater COVID-monitoring program
New Hampshire has launched a statewide program to monitor COVID-19 virus in sewage, a method of keeping track of the disease that is being used in many parts of the country. The new state program, announced Thursday, will collect samples from 14 sewage plants for...
As wild turkeys return, so do their diseases
Now that wild turkeys have become re-established in the Northeast, their population density is enough to spread disease. One called lymphoproliferative virus (LPDV) is showing up, says a UMaine study. They collected tissue samples from 699 Maine turkeys from 2017-20,...
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