Carbon Handprint: Potential Climate Benefits of a Novel Liquid-Cooled Base Station with Waste Heat Reuse

摘要: The novel life cycle assessment (LCA)-based carbon handprint indicator represents a potential footprint reduction that producers/products create for customers who use the(ir) product instead of baseline product. research question is how to consider situation in which multiple different purposes provide quantification and the associated communication. study further provides new insight into greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within mobile telecommunications energy sectors. Finnish liquid-cooled base station technology quantified. service waste heat recoverable through cooling liquid heating purposes. solutions are an air-cooled station, district electrical heating. creates handprint, both savings additional reuse, replacing other production methods. A large-scale climate change mitigation expansion could be significant. Different supply chain operators’ contributions total terminologically distinguished communications emphasize their roles shared handprint. should transparently communicated each customer function.