H2oAlliance Energy Working Group
This working group is an independent New-Tech Business Forum focusing on Energy Efficiency. Our working group focus on filling the need for the
cooperative management of the energy and water sectors to ensure
sustainable and sufficient supply of both energy and water. We invite you to join us.
Benefits
To be sustainable, economic development needs an adequate and steady supply of energy. Today's changing contexts require the consideration of a range of strategies to incorporate hydropower generation and other renewable forms of energy production to improve energy security while minimizing climate-changing emissions. The need for the cooperative management of the energy and water sectors will ensure sustainable and sufficient supply of both energy and water.
Oil and gas exploration use water for well drilling, completion, and fracturing. Water risks are particularly important in new tar sands developments, which use 4-5 liters of water to separate out each liter of oil. Water also plays an important role in
the extraction, downstream processing and conveyance of metals. Often, metals move from the mine to processing points in slurry-suspension form, requiring large quantities of water.
Water use in metals mining ranges between 100 and 8,000 liters of water per ton of ore extracted. pollution from mines is also a troublesome issue. Mine drainage often contains sulfuric acid and dissolved iron. Acid runoff further dissolves heavy metal such as copper, lead, and mercury into the groundwater. All this presents reputation and regulatory risks to be managed. Drainage cleanup costs from years of coal mining can be very high.
The emerging bioenergy industry will impact local and regional water resources.
Significant changes in agricultural systems, management practices, and
water demands to help satisfy the needs of bioenergy industry have the
potential to both positively and negatively affect water quality and
water supply.
Bio-refining can turn the biological waste into raw-material, produce several lines of
chemicals and fuels and separate the remaining mass into purified
water and solid mass. The end-products of bio-refining process include gas and liquid fuels, such as ethanol,
butanol and biometane, raw materials of chemical and fertilizer
industry, such as asetone, ammonium, phosphor and nitrogen, as well as
raw materials of plastics industry, such as butanediol. The use of new microbial
biotechnology makes low cost bio-refining possible anywhere in the world.
Power Working Group
Mining and Minerals Working Group
Oil Drilling Waste Working Group
Bioenergy
Bio-refining
Resource Efficiency Working Group
Working Groups
Climate Change
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