Carbon emission from hydroelectric reservoirs linked to reservoir age and latitude
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...Future hydropower plants will primarily be constructed in the subtropics and tropics, where greenhouse gas emission from reservoirs is estimated to be high, particularly during the first years after completion (Barros et al. 2011)....
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...S10 Earlier studies show that average CO2 and methane emission rates amount to 85 g and 3 g per kWh (with an uncertainty factor of 2) of produced hydropower electricity (Barros et al. 2011; Hertwich 2013)....
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...However, the share of hydropower in total global electricity production will rise only slightly from 16 % in 2011 to 18 % until 2040 because of the concurrent increase in global energy demand....
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...Maps All maps were drawn using the Mollweide projection, which provides a global representation of the major river basins that is accurate in area and true to scale along the equator and the central meridian....
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