by Susan Keown | Nov 6, 2022 | ScienceWire
Works by two NSWA members — Jane C. Hu and Julia Rosen — are in the 2022 edition of “The Best American Science and Nature Writing” series, out this month from HarperCollins. The book features nonfiction writing published in an American publication in 2021. Hu’s...
by Susan Keown | Sep 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
Peter Fairley’s (@pfairley) latest piece for InvestigateWest’s “Decarbonizing Cascadia” series discusses the movement for a stronger, coordinated electrical grid along the West Coast. A system built on centralized control centers with longer power lines, and boosted...
by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
While wind turbines generate clean power, they can be deadly to birds. Eric Stavney writes about how researchers reduced deaths of some species at one facility in Norway by painting one blade per turbine black. His story for The Norweigan American discusses why birds...
by Chris Tachibana | Jun 1, 2015 | ScienceWire
John Roach visits Glacier, Washington for the crisp mountain air and the big batteries. In a National Geographic piece, John writes that Glacier is just one of many national testing grounds for giant battery systems that could make electrical systems more reliable and...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2012 | ScienceWire
The Northwest plugs into river energy, so why not the Puget Sound? Amelia Apfel, writing in Seattle Business Magazine, tells of an unusual—and global—collaboration involving the Snohomish County Public Utility District and the University of Washington working to...
