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 Stories About: Brazil AND energy AND greenhouse-gas emissions AND hydropower AND renewable energy
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Natural gas from dams
Dam it all |
Gar Lipow |
08 Jun 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Tucuruí, Brazil's second largest dam has many times the GHG emissions of a natural gas plant of the same capacity -- though there is fierce argument over whether that output substantially exceeds what a natural watercourse would produce. (The emissions are due to methane from trapped organic matter in the dam.) There is now a proposal to tap that methane to run gas turbines and produce electricity, reducing the emissions many times, since CO2 from burning the methane ha ... |
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| Topics: Brazil, energy, greenhouse-gas emissions, hydropower, renewable energy (all these topics) |
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