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Addressing the Energy-Water Nexus Through Technological Innovation May 20, 2014
Addressing the Energy-Water Nexus Through Technological Innovation May 20, 2014
Pages 18-24
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Linking water and power has always been OPTIMIZING CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES an American tradition, he explained, and damming rivers and using the bounty of flowing water has Silvia Secchi, assistant professor of played a major role in transforming the American agribusiness economics at Southern Illinois th environment. Mills erected as early as the 18 University, discussed the impacts of biofuels on century in Maine are early examples of harnessing current markets and the natural environment.
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He described prices increase, farmers will move away from some of the barriers to solving challenges at the traditional corn production without stover removal to energy-water nexus, including rising energy costs, corn production with stover removal, resulting in inconsistent feedwater, increasing regulations, more negative environmental impacts. Current outdated system designs, increasing competition, incentives -- financial gains for farmers -- promote and the need for commercial expansion without more continuous corn production, and there are no increasing water withdrawals.
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recirculated cooling systems. One approach would Amy Childress, professor and director of be to treat the water using conventional technology, environmental engineering at the University of such as reverse osmosis, prior to circulating it Southern California, presented innovative through the plant; however, managing water quality technologies for desalination and discussed the inside the cooling tower system would be more cost- energy implications of producing desalinated water.
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Reverse osmosis infrastructure to achieve a clean and sustainable can produce water with less than 500 mg/L and uses energy future. Regional electric grids have limited less than one tenth of the energy required by flexibility to absorb renewable energy production, distillation processes; however, the membrane such as wind and solar energy, which have technology used for reverse osmosis has limitations, increased in capacity because of a number of such as membrane fouling due to contaminants economic and policy incentives.
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Level III is the more ideal system that can be exploited to absorb more utility of the future -- one that takes a systems renewable energy when it is available, increasing approach to managing the utility and integrates the capacity of the electric grid to bring more wind multiple systems. Effective Utility Management and solar online, or enable distributed energy focuses on using sustainable practices in resource systems.
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Keeping water in the urban water cycle is one water to their citizens; then they become a sewered element of a one-water community, but addressing community that removes wastes, after which they the watershed itself and including ecosystems in become a drained community that manages utility and urban planning are important rainwater and flooding. As water quality issues arise considerations, said Ms.
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The statements made are those of the author or individual meeting participants and do not necessarily represent the views of all meeting participants, the planning committee, STS, or the National Academies. The summary was reviewed in draft form by Steve Bergman, Shell International Exploration & Production Company and Michael Hightower, Sandia National Laboratories.
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