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Reducing greenhouse gas emissions of Amazon hydropower with strategic dam planning
Hundreds of dams have been proposed throughout the Amazon basin, one of the world’s largest untapped hydropower frontiers. While hydropower is a potentially clean source of renewable energy, some projects produce high greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions per unit electricity generated (carbon intensity)....
Autores principales: | Almeida, Rafael M., Shi, Qinru, Gomes-Selman, Jonathan M., Wu, Xiaojian, Xue, Yexiang, Angarita, Hector, Barros, Nathan, Forsberg, Bruce R., García-Villacorta, Roosevelt, Hamilton, Stephen K., Melack, John M., Montoya, Mariana, Perez, Guillaume, Sethi, Suresh A., Gomes, Carla P., Flecker, Alexander S. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group UK
2019
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6753097/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31537792 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12179-5 |
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