John Roach

Great to work with @JohnBrecher to tell this story for Microsoft about the potential role of #hydrogen #fuelcell technology in the #energytransition news.microsoft.com/innovation-sto…

Nearly 35% of Ireland’s electricity is generated from 400 wind farms. Here’s how, in partnership with @EnelXGlobal and @eatoncorp, @Microsoft helps balance the grid when wind power is variable: news.microsoft.com/innovation-sto…

See how online math tutoring service @HelloEedi uses Microsoft AI to help boost students’ skills and confidence. aka.ms/Aagjivz

@sarahkaplan48 Maybe this would work?blogs.microsoft.com/ai/ais-big-lea…

Desperately seeking tips for keeping squirrels out of my vegetable garden. They're even eating the mint, which they're supposed to hate! Everything is in pots, and I've put chicken wire around some of them but I'd rather not have a yard full of wire. Do those owl decoys work?

“But it’s equally possible to envision a future in which some of the technology works out, and the globe is reshaped by a combination of renewable energy and renewable storage.” – @SilverJacket newyorker.com/magazine/2022/…

"The technology has a long way to go before it could become an important part of the nation's energy solution," writes @nicolakimjones for @YaleE360. Still, it's fun idea, with potential. e360.yale.edu/features/after…

@NidhiSubs @Nature @WSJ Fantastic news, Nidhi. Congrats!

Some exciting news: This is my last week at @Nature. I'll be starting a new job soon at @WSJ covering climate and the earth sciences

Are meetings better in the #metaverse? Find out with Mesh for Teams. news.microsoft.com/innovation-sto…

What’s “the cloud”? Microsoft launches a virtual datacenter experience that “makes the cloud real for people and less high-tech and hifalutin.” #cloudcomputing #datacenter #infrastructure news.microsoft.com/innovation-sto…

"Air cooling is not enough." My story on why Microsoft is using boiling liquid to cool datacenter computers. news.microsoft.com/innovation-sto…

Important story, great #climate reporting. nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Best of the Northwest Science Writing Awards submissions are open til 11:59 PM TODAY (Nov. 15). Awards in both institutional and journalism categories. Pass it on @PriscillaLong @byjohnroach @mwmcelroy @hickeyh nwscience.org/news/best-nort…

“You really need to understand what is going on, you need to know the relationship between objects and actions and you need to summarize and describe it in a natural language sentence.” – Lijuan Wang, on the challenge of image captioning. #AzureAI

Fun piece to work on for Microsoft about an #AI breakthrough in image captioning. blogs.microsoft.com/ai/azure-image…

Happy #HydrogenDay and #FuelCell Day. news.microsoft.com/innovation-sto…

Cool story by @sarahkaplan48. washingtonpost.com/climate-soluti…

Interesting look at the growth of solar in Australia. nytimes.com/2020/09/29/bus…

You want solar panels. So do other folks around town. A big company wants to help, eyeing carbon offsets. In Ireland, Microsoft and green energy provider SSE Airtricity harness the internet of things to demonstrate a win-win solution. Here’s my story. news.microsoft.com/innovation-sto…

Microsoft demonstrates how to increase green energy in Ireland one rooftop at a time news.microsoft.com/innovation-sto…

Two years ago, Microsoft researchers sank a datacenter to the bottom of the ocean. This summer, they pulled it out of the water. Here’s my story about what they learned news.microsoft.com/innovation-sto…