Via Smithsonian Magazine, a look at the potential for “floatovoltaics” to drastically raise power generation and conserve water in reservoirs, according to a new study: Floating solar panels placed on reservoirs around the world could generate enough energy to power thousands of cities, according to a study published last week in the journal Nature Sustainability. Called floating […]
Read more »Courtesy of The New York Times, a report on the hydrogen industry, a sector into which hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested in a high-tech gamble to make hydrogen clean, cheap and widely available: For eons this has been a quiet, unremarkable place. Thousands of square miles of flat land covered in shrubs […]
Read more »Via Inside Climate News, a report on the impact that fracking waste is having upon aquifers in west Texas: A fracked well in West Texas can produce five times as much wastewater as oil. Every day, fleets of tanker trucks haul hundreds of millions of gallons of this toxic brine to loosely regulated disposal facilities that line the rural […]
Read more »Via PowerEngineering International, a report on California’s efforts to pilot test energy storage on solar canal canopies which has several interesting watergy attributes such as the water in the conveyance infrastructure has the potential to cool the solar panels, increasing their efficiency, while the solar panels also provide shade and wind protection over the water, reducing evaporation and […]
Read more »Via Bloomberg, a report on the watergy impact of South Africa’s power crisis: Parts of Johannesburg, South Africa’s economic hub, are being subjected to renewed water-supply cuts as ongoing electricity shortages disrupt pumping operations. A power failure at Rand Water’s Eikenhof pump station, which supplies reservoirs in several high-lying areas of Johannesburg, resulted in critically […]
Read more »Via The Source, a report on a new book aiming to help the water sector reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases: The global demand for energy and water is intensifying because of a growing world population, better standards of living in developing countries, and significant industrial growth in countries such as China and India. Water is […]
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