Hydropower: The Unlikely Economic Base for the Complete Sovereignty of Greenland : RCC Perspectives 2014, no. 5: Energy (and) Colonialism, Energy (In)Dependence: Africa, Europe, Greenland, North America: Hydropower: The Unlikely Economic Base for the Complete Sovereignty of Greenland
About eight percent of Earth’s freshwater is located in Greenland. Theoretically, this would mean that Greenland has some of the greatest potential for hydropower in the whole world. However, nearly all its freshwater is permanently frozen.
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Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Munich, Germany
2014
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.5282/rcc/6559 http://www.environmentandsociety.org/node/6559/ |
| Summary: | About eight percent of Earth’s freshwater is located in Greenland. Theoretically, this would mean that Greenland has some of the greatest potential for hydropower in the whole world. However, nearly all its freshwater is permanently frozen. |
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