Plugged-In Automotive Economy to intensify the water demand?

Posted on May 5, 2008. Filed under: Prius, alternative energy, environment, expantion, photovoltaics, toyota, transportation, wind energy | Tags: 2009, cars, electric power, environment, gasoline, hybrid, plug-in, Prius, recharge, renewable, toyota |

Those are the arguments from Carey W. King and Michael E. Webber, from a published research work of February 20, 2008 at the American Chemical Society Publications. These two geologists working at Texas, are saying that converting light-duty vehicles from full gasoline power to electric power, either by converting hybrid electric vehicles to plug-in versions or fully electric power vehicles, will likely increase the demand for water resources. This is because the United States sources of its majority of electric power plants are from a petroleum electricity generation that requires large amounts of water for cooling off during the process. Changing the transportation vehicles to electric, will greatly increase the demand of power from these generations plants, it will impact the water resources. It should be considered, this negative impact. But for those of you that recharge your plug-in hybrid or future electric vehicles with renewable sources like wind and solar, will not have to worry about the greatly impact on water resources from where your electricity comes from.