Via the BBC, an interesting look at the watergy impact of data and data centers: Researchers at Imperial College London made headlines last year when they claimed that up to 200 litres of water could be involved in the download of a single gigabyte (GB) of data. It’s a shocking statistic – especially when you […]
Read more »Via Yale’s e360, an interesting look at how, as China’s population connects to the Web, its data centers are consuming huge amounts of water and energy to power the growing demand: China’s 1.37 billion people, many of them fully connected to the internet, use an enormous amount of energy as they email, search the Web, or […]
Read more »Via NRDC, an interesting look at the watergy nexus in California where retail water conservation appears to have had no real effect on long-distance water conveyance: Earlier this summer, researchers at UC-Davis confirmed what a lot of us already know—that saving water saves energy. The analysis from the UC-Davis Center for Water-Energy Efficiency found that California’s mandatory 25 […]
Read more »Via China Water Risk, a look at how wind & sun can help China’s parched North save water and still make power: Highlights -Resources severely mismatched in the North; solar & wind can save water equivalent up to 18% of the Western route -3 northern provinces account for ~75% of China’s onshore wind & solar […]
Read more »Via The Conversation, an interesting article on the global watergy nexus: With a quarter of the world’s human population already living in regions that suffer from severe water scarcity for at least six months of the year, it is perhaps not surprising that the World Economic Forum recently rated water crises as the largest global risk in terms of […]
Read more »Via Nature.org, a look at Myanmar’s watergy challenges & opportunities ahead: As a personal investor, you tend to hear a lot about balancing risk and reward through a few fundamental strategies, such as developing — and sticking to — a long-range plan that features a diversified portfolio. But this is not an essay on personal […]
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