DOE: climate change to affect energy
DOE: climate change to affect energy
"Increasing temperatures, decreasing water availability, more intense storm events, and sea level rise will each independently, and in some cases in combination, affect the ability of the United States to produce and transmit electricity from fossil, nuclear, and existing and emerging renewable energy sources," the department said in the report, released Thursday.
"These changes are also projected to affect the nation's demand for energy and its ability to access, produce, and distribute oil and natural gas," it states.
Annual temperatures have increased about 1.5 degrees in the last century, the report says, and 2012 was the warmest year on record.
The report pointed to an Argonne National Laboratory study showing higher peak electricity demand as a result of climate change-related temperature increases will require an additional 34 gigawatts of new power generation capacity just in the West by 2050, costing consumers $45 billion.
Everything is connected. Everything.
= new reply since forum marked as read
