Think Hydropower Is Green?

GURPS

INGSOC
PREMO Member
Think Hydropower Is Green? Scientists Believe It Might Emit More Greenhouse Gas Than They Thought



While the EPA reports that the air emissions of hydropower is “negligible because no fuels are burned,” it acknowledged that plants around a reservoir can create decay in the lake, resulting in methane emissions.

Climate Central reported that scientists are beginning to think, based on recent research, that reservoirs might be more of a methane source, but they don’t know how much more due to a lack of data.

“[It's] still a big question mark,” John Harrison with Washington State University, Vancouver’s School of the Environment told Climate Central.

With that, he added that he doesn’t think “we really know what the relative greenhouse gas effect of reservoirs is compared to other sources of energy in the U.S.”

“We’re still in the very early days here of understanding how these systems work with respect to greenhouse gas production,” Harrison told Climate Central.
 

Gilligan

#*! boat!
PREMO Member
What a total crock of poo. Just another hungry university tool looking for some research grant money.
 

Larry Gude

Strung Out
...in the very early days here of understanding how these systems work with respect to greenhouse gas production,” Harrison told Climate Central.


Guess he missed photosynthesis day in junior high.


Greenhouses produce...


...oxygen.
 
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