Granite Geek

Episode 27: Aviation Museum seeks teletype repairer

Is fascination with aviation fading? The Granite Geek answers. Also, the Aviation Museum of New Hampshire is looking for someone to help repair teletype machines. 

Episode 26: N.H. Historical Marker recognizes BASIC invention

Granite Geek is getting it's BASIC historic marker in 2019! Hooray! Now he's looking for suggestions on other geeky N.H. people or things that deserve some attention. 

Episode 25: Municipal Broadband

Granite Geek David Brooks looks into Bristol, N.H.'s, efforts to create a municipal broadband network to bring high-speed internet to a rural community. 

Episode 24: There's something fishy going on

Efforts to help restore salmon to the Merrimack River have helped out another species, herring. 

Episode 23: The art of road salting

Granite Geek David Brooks discusses what road crews have to consider when winter's snow and wet make driving difficult. 

Episode 22: Rethinking the power grid

Boothbay, Maine, saved $12 million dollars by rethinking how to create and store energy instead of building a larger transmission line. 

Episode 21: Challenges in climate modeling

Climate change will cause less snow to fall on New England in the future. Just how much less? It's a bit hard to pin down. 

Episode 20: How DNA technology will erode your privacy

Granite Geek David Brooks explains how DNA technology was used to track down a serial killer, but someday, it could be used to track you. 

 

Read more: https://www.concordmonitor.com/gnetic-geneaology-NHPR-public-radio-Bear-Brook-21420103

Episode 19: Wildlife protection crossings

Wildlife crossings help protect animals as they move from one habitat to another. 

Episode 18: Nanocomp bought by Huntsman, has contract with NASA

Nanocomp was founded in 2004 by a trio of researchers in Lebanon, who figured out a better way to get carbon atoms to join together and form tubes a billionth of a meter in length, in what is known as the nanometer scale, and then convincing these tubes to line up in ways that let them transfer mechanical or electrical energy in useful form.

 

Read the story: https://granitegeek.concordmonitor.com/2018/10/31/after-succeeding-in-space-n-h-firm-wants-to-bring-carbon-nanotubes-down-to-earth/