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Related: About this forumAsian Water Scarcity Risked as Coal-Fired Power Embraced
Inner Mongolias rivers are feeding Chinas coal industry, turning grasslands into desert. In India, thousands of farmers have protested diverting water to coal- fired power plants, some committing suicide.
The struggle to control the worlds water is intensifying around energy supply. China and India alone plan to build $720 billion of coal-burning plants in two decades, more than twice todays total power capacity in the U.S., International Energy Agency data show. Water will be boiled away in the new steam turbines to make electricity and flush coal residue at utilities from China Shenhua Energy Co. to Indias Tata Power Co. that are favoring coal over nuclear because its cheaper.
With China set to vaporize water equal to what flows over Niagara Falls each year, and Indias industrial water demand growing at twice the pace of agricultural or municipal use, Asias most populous nations will have to reconsider energy projects to avoid conflict between cities, farmers and industry.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-09/asian-water-scarcity-risked-as-coal-fired-power-embraced.html
The struggle to control the worlds water is intensifying around energy supply. China and India alone plan to build $720 billion of coal-burning plants in two decades, more than twice todays total power capacity in the U.S., International Energy Agency data show. Water will be boiled away in the new steam turbines to make electricity and flush coal residue at utilities from China Shenhua Energy Co. to Indias Tata Power Co. that are favoring coal over nuclear because its cheaper.
With China set to vaporize water equal to what flows over Niagara Falls each year, and Indias industrial water demand growing at twice the pace of agricultural or municipal use, Asias most populous nations will have to reconsider energy projects to avoid conflict between cities, farmers and industry.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-09-09/asian-water-scarcity-risked-as-coal-fired-power-embraced.html
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Asian Water Scarcity Risked as Coal-Fired Power Embraced (Original Post)
phantom power
Sep 2012
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Nihil
(13,508 posts)1. Kick for a particularly scary sentence ...
> China and India alone plan to build $720 billion of coal-burning plants in two decades,
> more than twice todays total power capacity in the U.S.
phantom power
(25,966 posts)2. well, it's cheaper, you see
GliderGuider
(21,088 posts)3. Wasn't there someone around these parts who assured us (repeatedly)
that China and India were about to be come propeller-heads, not smokers?
And people wonder why we wear these expressions...