(May 21, 2009, The New York Times)
It has long been an axiom of infrastructure planning that it takes a lot of water to make electricity, and a lot of electricity to make water.
Each day, for example, the nation’s thermoelectric power plants (90 percent of all power plants in the United States), draw 136 billion gallons [...]
(March 26, 2009, The Wall Street Journal)
Last month, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, a utility that provides power to mostly rural areas, agreed to conduct a major study to see if it might meet growing energy needs through energy efficiency and not a big, new coal-fired power plant, as it had proposed for southeast Colorado.
One [...]
(March 19, 2009, Aguanomics)
ID asks:
One of the structural issues I see with regard to pricing water is metering.
I’m sure the technology exists or could easily exit to monitor my water usage tied to a dollar amount.
I would like an easy to read display: Gallons used, unit cost, total cost. Generally metering is on [...]
