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Get Used To Blackouts and Higher Electric Bills As the Climate Changes

2016-01-04 17:14:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Vice: Climate change could put at risk thousands of the world's power plants by the middle of the century, leading to outages and forcing countries to find alternative sources of energy, according to a study published on Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change. Researchers evaluated the likely impact of more frequent and more severe heat waves on 24,515 hydropower and 1,427 thermoelectric power plants around the world. They found that as many as 86 percent of those hydro facilities could see notable...

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