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Purpose: The purpose of this study is to provide life cycle inventory data and results for components of electrical grids to the larger community of life cycle assessment practitioners. This article is the first in a series of two, each focusing on different components of power grids. In part 1, the [...]

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We investigate the potential environmental impacts of a large-scale adoption of wind power to meet up to 22% of the world's growing electricity demand. The analysis builds on life cycle assessments of generic onshore and offshore wind farms, meant to represent average conditions for global deploymen [...]

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This article challenges the notion that energy efficiency and 'clean' energy technologies can deliver sufficient degrees of climate change mitigation. By six arguments not widely recognized in the climate policy arena, we argue that unrealistic technology optimism exists in current climate change mi [...]

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In this paper we investigate the Carbon Footprint (CF) resulting from the activities of the county of Sogn og Fjordane (SFK). An Environmentally Expanded Input-Output model is applied to develop a consumption-based Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory for this purpose. The model has previously been used f [...]

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The number of electric and electronic equipment (EEE) owned by households has multiplied in the recent decade. We investigate the climate implications of the purchase, use and disposal of EEE by Norwegian households in 2008. While traditionally, large electric appliances such as washing machines, dr [...]

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Change in home heating to more efficient and renewable systems is important for a sound climate policy. The present paper aims to identify potential interventions for the uptake of wood-pellet heating in Norway using an agent-based model (ABM). The theoretically based, empirically founded, agent-bas [...]

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This paper reviews assessments of environmental impacts arising from consumption, taking into account the production and disposal of goods consumed. Assessments have mostly focused on understanding household consumption, but there is an increasing interest in understanding government consumption, as [...]

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Life cycle assessment is increasingly used to assess the environmental performance of fossil energy systems. Two of the dominant emissions of offshore oil and gas production to the marine environment are the discharge of produced water and drilling waste. Although environmental impacts of produced w [...]

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Hybrid life cycle assessment is used to assess and compare the life cycle environmental impacts of electricity generation from coal and natural gas with various carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies consisting of post-combustion, pre-combustion or oxyfuel capture; pipeline CO2 transport and [...]

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Hybrid life cycle assessment has been used to assess the environmental impacts of natural gas combined cycle (NGCC) electricity generation with carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS). The CCS chain modeled in this study consists of carbon dioxide (CO2) capture from flue gas using monoethanolamine [...]