February 11th, 2013
Via the Daily Camera, a report on one aspect of Colorado’s watergy nexus: Flatiron Freddy, Boulder’s rodent meteorologist, has signaled more winter ahead and it’s faint comfort for those who are too familiar with evacuating for wildfire, as this year’s winter is certainly not moist enough to keep that threat much at bay, and there’s […]
Read more »Four Ways Water Is Connected to India’s Blackouts
February 11th, 2013
Via the World Resource Institute’s Aqueduct blog, a quick look at India’s watergy issues: Early last week, the strained electrical power infrastructure in northern and eastern India was pushed to its breaking point. Two days of power failures impacted a staggering 670 million people (or, put another way, more than the combined populations of the […]
Read more »February 2nd, 2013
Via The Guardian, a look at the amount of energy we use to pump, clean and transport water: In the water-food-energy nexus, the relationship between water and energy may appear obvious. Water is used to create energy through hydro-power for example, or to cool power stations or to mine fossil fuels. But there’s another side […]
Read more »Water Demand For Energy To Double By 2035
January 31st, 2013
Via National Geographic, a report on the world’s growing energy thirst: The global increase of coal power, along with the coal industry’s adoption of new technologies, will drive the largest share of water consumption for energy use through 2035, according to the IEA. Pictured: Germany’s Jaenschwalde coal plant. The amount of fresh water consumed for […]
Read more »January 29th, 2013
Via Adventure Journal, a look at the watergy implications of western oil shale production: Extracting the West oil riches requires lots and lots of water – and the area isn’t exactly getting wetter. Locked up inside the six million years of sediment that makes up the Green River Formation, which extends across mostly public lands […]
Read more »India’s Watergy Nexus
January 15th, 2013
Via ModeShift, an interesting article on India’s watergy challenge: A 1,350-megawatt coal-fired power plant under construction near Tilda, near Raipur in Chhattisgarh, is one of more than 100 big generating stations recently built or nearing completion across India. Only China has a bigger coal-fired power plant construction program. It’s been a couple of weeks since […]
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