March 21st, 2014
Via The Guardian, a report on the A sign in Turlock, California where water scarcity has had a severe effect on energy production, as well as agriculture. All hydro, no power? Yesterday afternoon I made a list. I’d like to share it with you: Alon, Solar Alliance, Eskom, GDF Suez, Iberdrola, Ranhill Berhad, Sasol. Can […]
Read more »De-Risking Water Supply Through Source Energy
February 28th, 2014
From an innovative company called Energy Points, an interesting piece on the watergy connection below: North Carolina in 2007. Brazil in 2012. Texas in 2013. And California right now. What do they have in common? Droughts and heat waves are becoming routine in many parts of the world, and they can pose major challenges for […]
Read more »February 20th, 2014
Via the Los Angeles Times, an article on how some residents of Greeley, Colorado worry that as they sell water to the oil and gas companies that have brought a drilling boom to town, it will run out: A worker gives a hand signal over the sound of massive pumps at an Encana Oil & […]
Read more »Rain Checked: Brazils’ Watergy Crisis
February 19th, 2014
Courtesy of The Economist, a report on the watergy tensions bedeviling Brazil’s power industry: PRAYING to St Peter is not much of an energy policy. Yet that is what Brazil’s government seems to be doing by counting on rain—which, according to folklore, São Pedro dispenses at the pearly gates—to sort out a looming electricity crisis. […]
Read more »February 8th, 2014
Courtesy of The Guardian, an article on how water scarcity and poor hydro management can threaten energy production: The UK’s climate change minister Greg Barker and Nobel Laureate Kofi Annan will be among those meeting in Delhi this week to try to get to grips with one of the most pressing issues of our time: […]
Read more »In California Drought, A Message To Consumers: Water Is Power
February 8th, 2014
Via the Christian Science Monitor, an article on how California consumers are being told to save water now so they will have electricity later: The message to Californians is as unequivocal as it is counterintuitive to some: Take shorter showers, turn off the faucet while shaving, stop watering your lawn, and there might be enough […]
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