{"id":4245,"date":"2019-09-24T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euromenaenergy.com\/?p=4245"},"modified":"2019-09-24T16:41:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T16:41:30","slug":"coal-may-outlive-climate-change-but-cant-survive-the-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/?p=4245","title":{"rendered":"Coal may outlive climate change but can\u2019t survive the drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"subtitel col-lg-12\">\n<p>Bloomberg\/Vienna<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Asia\u2019s prolonged binge on coal is making the grids that transmit power to a third of the world\u2019s people brittle and prone to failure.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s the conclusion of new research in the peer-reviewed journal Energy &amp; Environmental Science.<br \/>\nMore than 400 gigawatts of new coal-fired capacity in Asia are at risk as climate change dries out water sources necessary to cool those plants, according to the study.<br \/>\n\u201cCoal power development can expect reduced reliability in many locations across Asia,\u201d Edward Byers, one of the report\u2019s authors, said by e-mail. \u201cThis is further evidence of coal power\u2019s increasingly recognised incompatibility with current international and national climate and sustainable development policy.\u201d<br \/>\nSummer heatwaves and reduced rainfall have been closing water-cooled power plants across the world as the impact of climate change exacerbates the nexus between water and energy supply. Asian utilities building coal plans could find themselves increasingly competing with industry and consumers for scarce water resources.<br \/>\n\u201cThis planned capacity adds 30% more to the existing coal-fired generation capacity, and will engender substantial water requirements and amounts of pollutants that can exacerbate global climate change and regional air pollution,\u201d the researchers wrote.<br \/>\nThermal power generation could fall as much as 16% globally in the next three decades because of water shortages, they concluded. Researchers used hydrological and climate models as well as data from the Global Coal Plant Tracker to reach their conclusions. Different warming scenarios ranging to as high as 3 degrees Celsius (5.4 Fahrenheit) were considered. The world is currently on a warming trajectory that may hit 5 degree Celsius by the end of the century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg\/Vienna Asia\u2019s prolonged binge on coal is making the grids that transmit power to a third of the world\u2019s people brittle and prone to failure. 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