What Shortage?

Mount Shasta – Source of the Sacramento River

Editor’s note: Each year about fifty cubic kilometers of fresh water are captured by California’s reservoirs and released through a system of massive canals and aquaducts to points throughout the state. About twice that, roughly 100 cubic kilometers, comprise the total rainfall received in California in [...]

San Francisco
California

Editor’s note: Not only does it take about eight quadrillion BTU’s of energy per year to run California’s burgeoning economy, but annual water withdrawals in California, just from reservoirs, run a whopping twelve cubic miles! Most of California’s cities are built in arid or semi-arid regions that receive little or no water from [...]

India Building Large-Scale Solar Thermal Capacity

Parabolic Trough Array
Brighton, Colorado, USA
photo: US D.O.E.

Editor’s Note: Just as on a small scale, hybrid engines stretch a gallon of gas, in the same manner a hybrid power plant can stretch its own supply of fossil fuel. In India, a huge new power station using hybrid systems is [...]