Hi Jaro,
You're absolutely right in that:
"It is hard to imagine two environs more different than
the Amazon rainforest and the Canadian Arctic.
Yet here too researchers have found high emissions of
greenhouse gases from reservoirs."
(clipped from "Troubles for Hydropower", New Scientist, 1996, May 4, pp29-31)
Just in case anyone is going to be at the library,
they might want to check out:
Rosenberg, D.M., et al., "Environmental and Social Impacts of
Large-Scale Hydroelectric Development - Who is Listening",
Global Environmental Change, v.5, 1995, pp127-148.
Gagnon, L. et al., "Emissions from Hydroelectric Reservoirs and
Comparison of Hydroelectricity, Natural Gas and Oil", Ambio,
v.22, Dec. 1993, pp 568-569
Duchemin, E., et al., "Production of the Greenhouse Gases
CH4 and CO2 by Hydroelectric Reservoirs of the Boreal Region",
Global Biochemical Cycles, v.9, 1995, pp529-540.
Rudd, J.W.M., et al., "Are Hydroelectric Reservoirs Significant
Sources of Greenhouse Gases", Ambio, v.22, 1993, pp246-248.
Kelly, C.A., "Increases in Fluxes of Greenhouse Gases and
Methyl Mercury Following Flooding of an Experimental Reservoir",
Environmental Science & Technology, v.31, 1997, pp1334-1344
Happy reading,
-Gary
-----Original Message-----
From: Jaro [mailto:jaro-10kbq@sympatico.ca]
Sent: February 26, 2005 3:04 PM
To: nuclear
Subject: RE: [cdn-nucl-l] CANDU Cleaner Than Hydro
Thanks for the link Randal,
However, I find that the accompanying diagram, "Hydropower Polluters," is
not very useful -- one could even say its misleading.
The map only provides surface areas of dammed waters, in millions of
hectares.
It says *nothing* about the relative importance of each hectare, in terms of
GHG production, at various latitudes.
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