Double the benefits: clean energy also saves water

"The most important use of water for electricity production is for cooling," says Adam Schlosser, an author of The Impact of Renewable Electricity Futures on Water Demand  and the assistant director for science research at MIT's Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change. "The benefit of renewables like wind or solar is that you don't need to boil water for steam to spin the turbines, and then you don't need water to cool the steam. That cooling process is removed, saving a lot of water."

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