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Thirsty clean energy may add to water stressed world
2013-07-19 11:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New Scientist: As the world gets hotter and drier thanks to our predilection for burning fossil fuels, the technologies we need to reduce emissions could be too thirsty to be sustainable. The choices we make balancing power and water are already becoming an urgent issue in the fight against climate change, says Amanda Fencl of the Stockholm Environment Institute in Davis, California. While cutting emissions is necessary to curb global warming, some renewable and clean energy sources use more water than fossil...
Remote Terminal Unit helps utilities manage stressed grids.
2013-07-03 14:29:35| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
By monitoring distribution assets to determine load constraints and overloading conditions in network, Multilin™ DGCM Field RTU helps utilities understand grid conditions to minimize outages and equipment damage. Unit can log equipment operating parameters to facilitate immediate and long-term planning decisions. It also helps to identify feeders that are exposed to electricity theft. Applicable to new and retrofit applications, RTU supports wired and wireless communication architectures. This story is related to the following:Remote Terminal Units (RTU)
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Stressed Ecosystems Leaving Humanity High and Dry
2013-05-21 23:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Everyone knows water is life. Far too few understand the role of trees, plants and other living things in ensuring we have clean, fresh water. This dangerous ignorance results in destruction of wetlands that once cleaned water and prevented destructive and costly flooding, scientists and activists warn."We have accelerated major processes like erosion, applied massive quantities of nitrogen that leaks from soil to ground and surface waters and, sometimes, literally siphoned all water from rivers."...
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Hot zone risks stressed
2013-05-09 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Delaware Online: Even with immediate cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, global warming appears likely to stay on a worsening path through the middle of this century, a leading atmospheric scientist told a Delaware panel Wednesday. Katherine Hayhoe, a Texas Tech professor and consultant who was lead author for the climate science portion of the federal governments recent National Climate Assessment update, made the point during an Internet briefing for the Delaware Climate Change Steering Committee. The group...
Streams Stressed By Pharmaceutical Pollution
2013-04-02 06:59:05| econline Home Page
Pharmaceuticals commonly found in the environment are disrupting streams, with unknown impacts on aquatic life and water quality.
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