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Report Finds Water Stress Rapidly Becoming Key Strategic Risk to Commerce; Impending Water/Energy Collision

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While climate change is projected to increase precipitation in some areas, it is also likely to destabilize freshwater supply in other areas by compressing precipitation and snowmelt into shorter and more intense periods, overwhelming existing catchment infrastructure and creating longer periods of drought. Electric Power.

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Alberta to Host Underground Coal Gasification Demo; Update on Linc Chinchilla UCG In Australia

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Underground coal gasification (UCG) is an in-situ process using injection and production wells drilled from the surface, and enables the coal to be converted into a syngas. We have centuries of coal supply beneath our feet and it’s important to examine better ways to use this resource. Earlier post.)

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