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Wireless Water Flow Meter Network In The Great Bay, Braden S. Blanchette
Wireless Water Flow Meter Network In The Great Bay, Braden S. Blanchette
Honors Theses and Capstones
The Oyster Restoration Program alongside the New Hampshire chapter of the Nature Conservancy is working towards developing new oyster beds throughout the Great Bay. Sedimentation is proving to be a vast problem by covering up the beds before they have a chance to grow to a healthy level. The many rivers entering the Great Bay are bringing the sediments from all over the region and limiting the ability of the program to develop the new beds. They need a way to measure the sedimentation rate, by measuring the flow rate of the rivers over a single tidal cycle in various …
Investigation Of New Hampshire Hydropower Potential, Maxwell Murray
Investigation Of New Hampshire Hydropower Potential, Maxwell Murray
Honors Theses and Capstones
The popularity of green and renewable energy has risen sharply in recent years, and hydropower has consistently been the most common form of renewable energy in both the US and the state of New Hampshire. As a result of this strong green movement, government organizations have seen increased pressure to produce figures to the public detailing the amount of hydropower potentially available in the country. Often these figures will depict very attractive numbers for the untapped hydropower potential in the country, yet the data do not seem realistic to anyone familiar with hydropower generation. This paper will attempt to de-rate …