Water Infrastructure Articles & Analysis
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Fuel cells promise vehicle power with zero emissions Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles are powered by generating electricity from compressed hydrogen, and their only emission is fresh water. As good as that sounds, though, a lot of fresh water is required to manufacture the compressed hydrogen, and supplies are increasingly limited. Is there enough fresh water for a transition to hydrogen? A Reuters ...
Water and power are intimately connected in the U.S. and around the world. ...
Parallel construction on the two projects is bringing considerable cost benefits, even though they will use different CSP technologies, Derradji said. Sharing infrastructure and construction logistics and securing bulk orders for major components will allow the developers to cut capital costs, though they also expect to see OPEX savings and efficiencies from using some common ...
"The future of CSP is in dry, high-insolation areas and water in such places is scarce, so it makes sense," Berraho said. Noor II and Noor III were awarded as greenfield IPP projects on a BOT basis, the same basis as Noor I, and construction on both plants started this year. ...
Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack celebrated Earth Day by announcing that USDA "is providing more than $112 million in loans and grants to help rural communities build and upgrade their water and energy infrastructure systems." The funding for the energy infrastructure programs is provided through the Rural Energy for America ...
NASDAQ, a key partner in a Ceres-led effort to unify investors and global exchanges on this issue, is considering a similar move. 5) San Francisco’s water utility is giving new meaning to “love that dirty water” by allowing building owners and developers to produce and exchange onsite water with each other — a radical ...
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The water industry as a whole consumes a considerable amount of energy in the treatment and distribution of water and wastewater. ...
Energy runs on water. In fact, among industries, the global energy sector is the world’s largest water user. ...
Starting by redefining success, machines that vend clean water at low cost can solve India's drinking water problem, says entrepreneur Anand Shah. ...