Life Cycle Assessment and Grid Electricity: What Do We Know and What Can We Know?

作者: Christopher L. Weber , Paulina Jaramillo , Joe Marriott , Constantine Samaras

DOI: 10.1021/ES9017909

关键词: Electrical gridDistribution (economics)Life-cycle assessmentAir pollutionGridEnvironmental scienceEnvironmental economicsStandardized approachCarbon footprintElectricityEnvironmental engineering

摘要: … We focus on the continental US as a case study for the importance of the … of the importance of GHG emissions to LCA, we focus much of the rest of the discussion on uncertainty in the …

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