The continued drought within the western US depleted reservoirs and diminished hydropower era. Fossil gas energy crops stuffed the hole however that has led to elevated air air pollution
Environment
3 February 2023
Energy crops that burn coal and different fossil fuels generate extra pollution throughout drought circumstances. Shutterstock/James Marvin Phelps
File low water at reservoirs throughout the western US – a stark signal of the area’s megadrought-driven water crisis – means much less electrical energy could be generated at dams, which has led to extra greenhouse fuel emissions and air air pollution from fossil gas energy crops getting used to fill the hydropower hole.
On common, about 26 per cent of the electricity for the western US comes from hydropower and 50 per cent comes from fossil gas crops …
