March 22nd, 2012
Via Greenbang, a report on some of the linkages between water and energy: Most forms of energy we produce also require us to use water, often lots of water. Think of all the water needed to cool nuclear reactors, for example, or to generate steam to drive turbines in coal-fired power plants. Hydropower, obviously, couldn’t […]
Read more »Will Fracking Destroy Colorado’s Rivers?
March 22nd, 2012
Via Ecowatch, a look at the potential impact that fracking may have upon Colorado’s rivers: Oil and gas drilling and fracking pose extraordinary threats to Colorado’s Denver metro and Front Range cities including to air quality, water quality in streams and groundwater, wildlife habitat, private property rights and landscape health. These impacts are generally similar […]
Read more »March 19th, 2012
Via The Energy Collective, a look at whether water is a barrier to a low-carbon energy future: Ask an expert on clean tech what the largest barriers to a low carbon energy future are, and chances are they will list higher technology costs, policy barriers, or the need for new infrastructure to accommodate novel energy […]
Read more »China Irrigation System Responsible For Rising Emissions
March 16th, 2012
Via The Guardian, a look at the energy and climate costs of watering crops in drought-plagued northern China. As the article notes: A villager looks after a water pump that will irrigate a wheat field in Jimo, Shandong province, China. Photograph: Wu Hong/EPA The irrigation of Chinese farm fields with more water pumped from ever […]
Read more »February 23rd, 2012
Courtesy of Triple Pundit, an article on the water energy nexus: Energy and water. Water and energy. Both are critical to human development, and both are strongly interrelated. With few exceptions, water is necessary to generate and distribute energy. In turn, water can’t be collected, purified and transported without energy. A term has even been […]
Read more »The Watergy Nexus and Our Infrastructure Gap
February 18th, 2012
Courtesy of Greentech Media, a look at the water-energy nexus and our infrastructure gap: There is a growing gap between the infrastructure we need and the infrastructure we have. For two decades, Wedbush attorney, investment banker, and water industry executive Michael George has watched “the way we think about, use, finance water infrastructure and now […]
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