Suzanne Goldenberg, 27 June 2011 (UK Armament)
"The clarification of new renewable energy technologies and other expanding sources of energy such as shale gas request be identifiable by the availability of wash in in the least regions of the world, according to ["The Water-Energy Nexus; Adding up wash to the energy series from Earth Diplomacy Boon]...
"The revise shows the confidence on large amounts of wash to create biofuels and run solar thermal energy and hydraulic fracturing - a form for extracting gas from marginal pure formations underhanded - path droughts may perhaps hold back their employment..."
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"The revise, estimating the wash take advantage of of normal and renewable energy, source absolutely in name only clean energy solutions use broad amounts of wash...Hydroelectricity far outstrips other forms of energy in its use of wash, requiring 4,500 gallons to produce a exceptional megawatt hour of electricity - or re the equip obligatory to run a flat-screen TV for a engagement. Geothermal energy uses 1,400 gallons per MW/h.
"Corn-based ethanol uses a lot of wash to fill up crops, as do nuclear natural world which rely on wash for cooling systems. Stable in the least renewable energy sources - such as solar farms - are wash hogs seeing as they rely on wash for cooling...Stellar thermal farms use five era as a lot wash as nuclear power natural world...In judge against, photovoltaic solar cells, which convert energy from the sun trendy electricity, [and wind turbines, which convert the inevitable energy of wind trendy electricity,] use easy amounts of wash."
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"Meanwhile, the US waterlessness is forcing energy companies to scale give your approval to strategy for deploying new techniques in hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for oil and gas parentage. Not long ago, energy companies were hoping to refurbish production in Texas by 50% over the upcoming five years...Discrete in Pennsylvania, but the chemicals used in natural gas drilling put up with stained burning up produce, the sweat in Texas are a query of wash reckon, not wash quality...
"It takes up to 13m gallons of wash to plausible up a exceptional in detail in the Eagle Ford shale region in south Texas, but wash is in perennially short savings account. Such demands are goodbye to firm clarification of areas in south and west Texas, which are tormented wash shortages..."
