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Implementation of life cycle impact assessment methods
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Contribution of Li-Ion Batteries to the Environmental Impact of Electric Vehicles
Dominic A. Notter,Marcel Gauch,Rolf Widmer,Patrick Wäger,Anna Stamp,Rainer Zah,Hans-Jörg Althaus +6 more
TL;DR: The study shows that the environmental burdens of mobility are dominated by the operation phase regardless of whether a gasoline-fueled ICEV or a European electricity fueled BEV is used.
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) of waste management strategies: Landfilling, sorting plant and incineration
TL;DR: In this article, a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of four waste management strategies: landfill without biogas utilization, landfill with biOGAS combustion to generate electricity, sorting plant which splits the inorganic waste fraction (used to produce electricity via Refuse Derived Fuels, RDF) from the organic waste fraction, used to produce bio-diesel via anaerobic digestion, direct incineration of waste, and these scenarios are applied to the waste amount and composition of the Municipality of Roma (Italy).
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Integrated life-cycle assessment of electricity-supply scenarios confirms global environmental benefit of low-carbon technologies.
Edgar G. Hertwich,Thomas Gibon,Evert A. Bouman,Anders Arvesen,Sangwon Suh,Garvin Heath,Joseph D. Bergesen,Andrea Ramirez,Mabel Vega,Lei Shi +9 more
TL;DR: This paper presents the first global, integrated 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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The changing role of life cycle phases, subsystems and materials in the LCA of low energy buildings
TL;DR: In this article, a detailed Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has been conducted on a low energy family house recently built in Northern Italy, which was claimed to be sustainable on the basis of its outstanding energy saving performances, an ex post LCA was set up to understand whether, and to what extent, the positive judgement could be confirmed in a life cycle perspective.
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Criticality of metals and metalloids.
Thomas E. Graedel,Thomas E. Graedel,E. M. Harper,Nedal T. Nassar,Philip Nuss,Barbara K. Reck +5 more
TL;DR: The results show that the limitations for many metals important in emerging electronics are largely those related to supply risk; those of platinum group metals, gold, and mercury, to environmental implications; and steel alloying elements as well as elements used in high-temperature alloys, to vulnerability to supply restriction.