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Wind/Water Nexus
Publication year - 2006
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/881314
Subject(s) - nexus (standard) , wind power , business , natural resource economics , rural development , energy (signal processing) , economic growth , environmental economics , environmental planning , agricultural economics , environmental resource management , geography , economics , engineering , agriculture , electrical engineering , archaeology , embedded system , statistics , mathematics
Nobel laureate Richard Smalley cited energy and water as among humanity's top problems for the next 50 years as the world's population increases from 6.3 billion to 9 billion. The U.S. Department of Energy's Wind and Hydropower Program has initiated an effort to explore wind energy's role as a technical solution to this critically important issue in the United States and the world. This four-page fact sheet outlines five areas in which wind energy can contribute: thermoelectric power plant/water processes, irrigation, municipal water supply, desalination, and wind/hydropower integration

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