Via The Energy Collective, commentary on the watergy nexus: Water is essential for the production of energy. Energy facilities both consume water and have impacts on the aquatic ecosystems they interact with. These interactions are complex however and it is a mistake to over-simplify – one we must avoid if we are to meet our […]
Read more »Via Reuters, a look at the impact the watergy nexus is having in Tanzania: Tanzania, home to Mt. Kilimanjaro and the Serengeti National Park, has a tradition of protecting land for the sake of ecological diversity and beauty. Now the country has a new reason to add to its protected sites list: electricity. Faced with […]
Read more »Via the Daily Beast, an interesting – yet sobering – report on hydroelectric-reliant North Korea’s watergy challenges: Kim Jong Un’s next big crisis may be harder to Photoshop over, unless his propaganda artists have very strong battery backups. North Korea is experiencing severe power outages as a crippling drought has led to increased failures by its […]
Read more »Courtesy of Circle of Blue, an interesting look at the watergy constraints impacting shale energy exploration in northern Mexico: Before world oil prices collapsed late last year, shop owners closest to the banks of the Rio Grande River in Piedras Negras joked that they could hear the groans of Texas drilling rigs advancing toward their […]
Read more »Via the World Bank, a brief look at the Bank’s Central Asia Energy-Water Development Program (CAEWDP): Central Asia is endowed with water and an abundance of rich and varied energy resources — hydropower, oil, gas, and coal. These resources can support increased agricultural production and have the potential to exceed domestic energy demand to supply export markets. […]
Read more »Via the Mitchell Foundation, some interesting commentary at the management of water use for shale oil and gas: The United States is becoming energy independent largely due to a technology that combines horizontal drilling with hydraulic fracturing. At a recent public meeting I posed a question to the audience, “How much water is used in hydraulic […]
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