Heart of Dryness: Water, Climate, and Energy
The second installment Climate Change Coping Strategies of excerpts from James G. Workman’s Heart of Dryness
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Melting Glaciers Changing Europe’s Energy Outlook
What happens when a dependable source of clean, renewable energy becomes unreliable?
Peter Gleick: Water for Energy, the Bad Bet for Biofuels
In the ongoing debate about rethinking America’s energy future, there has been far too little discussion about water. It takes a tremendous amount of water to produce our energy, no matter how you measure it. According to the USGS assessment of water use in the United States (done every five years), about half of all […]
Energy Industry Sways Congress With Misleading Data
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica The two key arguments that the oil and gas industry is using to fight federal regulation of the natural gas drilling process called hydraulic fracturing — that the costs would cripple their business and that state regulations are already strong — are challenged by the same data and reports the industry […]
Peter Gleick: Salt from Water: The Question of Energy
Following up on my last post, on the cost of desalination,
How the West’s Energy Boom Could Threaten Drinking Water for 1 in 12 Americans
By Abrahm Lustgarten ProPublica David Hasemyer The San Diego Union-Tribune This story was co-published with the San Diego Union-Tribune and also appears in that newspaper’s Dec. 21, 2008 issue. The Colorado River, the life vein of the Southwestern United States, is in trouble. The river’s water is hoarded the moment it trickles out of the […]
Fishy Thinking Inspires New Clean Energy Technology
An alternative way to create power from water that creates vortexes and vibrations.
Fueling the Flow: Paying Attention to Where Water and Energy Meet
More now than ever, the American West is realizing the binary nature of energy production and water delivery.
Global Trends 2025: Water shortages threaten food security, energy supply and geopolitical stability
The word on the world is out and, water-wise, it is far from encouraging. The National Intelligence Council’s (NIC) Global Trends 2025 report predicts that by the year 2025, 600 million people across 21 countries will experience cropland or freshwater scarcity. “Among the new entrants will be Burundi, Colombia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Malawi, Pakistan, and Syria. […]
Opinion: Where Water Trumps Energy
A new plan to drill for natural gas along America’s East Coast could endanger water supplies.
Energy from Water: New Dam Projects Proposed in Tibet
China plans to build a string of new dams throughout Tibet.
New Energy, Old Dams: Maine to Restore Penobscot River Ecosystem
OLD TOWN, Maine – The Atlantic Salmon, a species listed as endangered in eight of Maine’s rivers, will soon have fewer migratory hurdles to handle. The Penobscot River Restoration Trust recently announced their decision to purchase three Maine river dams from the PPL Corporation. With the intent to decommission them, many hope the trust’s project […]
