22 March 2012 - The European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) has taken the opportunity on World Water Day today to highlight how wind energy can also contribute to cutting our water consumption compared with other energy sources.
The power sector is the one of the world's biggest consumers of water, explains EWEA, but one source - wind power - uses very little water to produce electricity. All fossil fuels and nuclear need significant quantities of water to pump crude oil out of the ground, remove pollutants from power plant exhausts, flush residues after fossil fuels are burned and cool power plants.
Coal uses up to 3.2 cubic metres of water per megawatt hour (MWh) of electricity produced, gas uses up to 1.7 m3 per MWh and nuclear around 2.7 m3 per MWh, but wind power uses only a fraction of these amounts. read more>>>
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