Life cycle assessment of photovoltaics: perceptions, needs, and challenges

作者: V.M. Fthenakis , E.A. Alsema , M.J. de Wild-Scholten

DOI: 10.1109/PVSC.2005.1488464

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摘要: High impact publications recently depicted PV technologies as having higher external environmental costs than those of nuclear energy and natural-gas-fueled power plants. These assessments are based on old data unbalanced assumptions, they illustrate the need for LCA describing continuously improving photovoltaic systems inclusion social benefits in this comparison.

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