March 14th, 2023
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 »California Pilot Tests Energy Storage on Solar Canal Canopies
February 15th, 2023
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 »February 5th, 2023
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 »The Water-Energy Nexus – A Toolkit For Innovation
January 31st, 2023
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 […]
Read more »January 29th, 2023
Via The Washington Post, a look at the watergy impact of artificial snowmaking: A lack of snow and abnormally mild temperatures are threatening ski resorts in the eastern United States, Europe and Asia. As natural snow becomes scarcer and temperatures creep too high for traditional snow machines, new technology is helping a growing number of […]
Read more »Could Floating Solar Farms Survive At Sea?
January 22nd, 2023
Via BBC, a look at the potential of sea-based solar farms: Indonesia is a nation of more than 10,000 islands, so supplying the whole country with electricity is a huge challenge. More than a million people are not connected to the electricity grid at all. “Those people who don’t have electricity are living on remote […]
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