Courtesy of Eurasia Review, a look at the growing watergy crisis in Asia: A coal-linked project in China’s dry Inner Mongolia region has caused a local water table to plunge and a local lake to shrink. In neighboring India, a thermal power plant has been forced to shut down because of severe water shortages. In […]
Read more »Courtesy of Circle of Blue, some comments on a recent UN report examining the watergy challenge: Even though India’s coal-fired capacity grows by nearly 20,000 megawatts annually, much of the nation still suffers from widespread blackouts. The reason: consumption of electricity is rising more than 10 percent annually, while the domestic coal supply is increasing […]
Read more »Via Bloomberg, an article on a recent UN report on the watergy crisis: Energy production will increasingly strain water resources in the coming decades even as more than 1 billion of the planet’s 7 billion people already lack access to both, according to a United Nations report. “There is an increasing potential for serious conflict […]
Read more »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 […]
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