October 31st, 2016
Via Future Directions International, a report on the implications of water scarcity on South Asia’s energy crisis: Key Points Demand for electricity in South Asia will continue to increase. While coal is likely to continue to be the main energy source, diversification efforts could decrease its share. The role of hydroelectric production has been to […]
Read more »The Thirsty Dragon: Using Unconventional Water For China’s Power Generation
October 19th, 2016
Via China Water Risk, a look at how unconventional water sources can help power China: Thermal power plants are intensive water users and a lot of China’s thermal power generation capacity is located in highly water stressed regions. In these regions, the power sector can be a significant contributor to water stress. In a bid […]
Read more »October 13th, 2016
Via From the Styx, a report on how water use in fracking is a key risk in water-stressed regions in Texas and Colorado: Map: Competition for Water in U.S. Shale Energy Development “Even with the slowdown in oil and gas production, hydraulic fracturing is potentially heightening the competition for water resources in many of the […]
Read more »WWW = WoW? Is The World Wide Web A Waste of Water?
September 30th, 2016
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 »August 25th, 2016
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 »In California, There is a Water-Energy Nexus. But It’s Not What You Think.
August 24th, 2016
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 […]
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