How do we balance needs of energy, water, and climate?

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In deciding how best to meet the world’s growing needs for energy, the answers depend crucially on how the question is framed. Looking for the most cost-effective path provides one set of answers; including the need to curtail greenhouse-gas emissions gives a different picture. Adding the need to address looming shortages of fresh water, it turns out, leads to a very different set of choices. That’s one conclusion of a new study led by Mort Webster, an associate professor of engineering systems at MIT, published in the journal *Nature Climate Change*. The study, he says, makes clear... lainnya »