Water & energy analysis bill may lead to steamy subjects

A sister magazine to Industrial WaterWorld, the Oil & Gas Journal posted a web item last week about a Senate Bill that looks at the interrelationship between energy and water that got picked up by the Western Business Roundtable E-News today. A U.S. DOE official is quoted in the news item as saying "efforts to capture carbon from existing coal and natural gas plants, or from new fossil [fuel] plants, would cause increases in water consumption" and "a doubling of the price of electricity would raise the cost of water 25-40% because moving water over large distances requires substantial amounts of electricity". The Bingaman-Murkowski bill would authorize six studies to analyze impacts energy and water policies have on each other. For more information, click here...