Integrated life cycle assessment of electricity supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies
Submitted by susan on Tue, 2014-10-07 16:22
Life-cycle assessments commonly used to analyze the environmental costs and benefits of climate-mitigation options are usually static in nature and address individual power plants. Our paper presents, to our knowledge, the first life-cycle assessment of the large-scale implementation of climate-mitigation technologies, addressing the feedback of the electricity system onto itself and using scenario-consistent assumptions of technical improvements in key energy and material production technologies.
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http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/10/02/1312753111
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06/10/2014