by Aiden Tuan | Mar 27, 2025 | ScienceWire
A story by Lynda Mapes showcases the issues from power providers in tackling power volatility brought on by climate change. Not only with the mandates to decarbonize energy supplies and to add more variable sources overall, but regional utilities have been facing...
by Susan Keown | Jan 19, 2025 | ScienceWire
Now on sale from Penguin RandomHouse is Vince Beiser’s new book, “Power Metal: The Race for the Resources that Will Shape the Future.” From the publisher: “The powerful ways the metals we need to fuel technology and energy are spawning environmental...
by Susan Keown | Nov 2, 2024 | ScienceWire
Mark Harris writes a decarbonization newsletter for Anthropocene Magazine, “Fixing Carbon: Dispatches From an Emerging Future,” which examines issues in climate technology and economics. His two October issues ask whether tariffs on foreign EVs and low-carbon...
by Susan Keown | Nov 19, 2023 | ScienceWire
Pee is a remarkable resource. Full of nutrients that are vital for plant growth, and often home to chemically active microorganisms, urine has a range of relatively untapped powers, Jenny Morber writes for Leaps.org. Morber highlights work by scientists and engineers...
by Susan Keown | Aug 4, 2023 | ScienceWire
For the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Karyn Hede (@KarynHede) writes about the lab’s new flow battery, which maintained its ability to store and release energy for more than a year of continuous charge and discharge — a record.Designed for energy storage on...
