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Worldwide electricity production vulnerable to climate and water resource change
2016-01-04 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Climate change impacts and associated changes in water resources could lead to reductions in electricity production capacity for more than 60% of the power plants worldwide from 2040-2069, according to a new study published today in the journal Nature Climate Change. Yet adaptation measures focused on making power plants more efficient and flexible could mitigate much of the decline. "Hydropower plants and thermoelectric power plants--which are nuclear, fossil-, and biomass-fueled plants converting...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical