Hydroelectric Power / 'Peach Farmer's Daughter'  (New)

Date: July 8, 2011
Source: Capital Public Radio
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Associate Director of UC Davis' Center for Watershed Sciences Joshua Viers recently published a study saying that a 7-degree Fahrenheit increase in temperature could reduce peak hydroelectric power by 30 percent. UC Davis scientists say officials must take climate change into account when relicensing hydroelectric water projects around California. (Source = UC Davis news release.) In another segment, Brenda Nakamoto, a longtime staffer in the UC Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and author of the book Peach Farmer's Daughter, is featured.

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