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Environmental impacts, water footprint and cumulative energy demand of match industry in Pakistan. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 A comprehensive life cycle assessment (LCA) was conducted for the matchsticks industry in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan to quantify environmental footprint, water footprint, cumulative energy use, and to identify improvement opportunities ...
Najeeb Ullah +10 more
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Cumulative Energy Demand and Carbon Footprint of the Greenhouse Cultivation System
Applied Sciences, 2022 The paper describes the influence of horticultural production in greenhouses under Polish climate conditions on energy consumption, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming.
Robert Grabarczyk, Sławomir Grabarczyk
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Cumulative Energy Demand As Predictor for the Environmental Burden of Commodity Production [PDF]
Environmental Science & Technology, 2010 Cumulative energy demand has been used as a methodology to assess life cycle environmental impacts of commodity production since the early seventies, but has also been criticized because it focuses on energy only. During the past 30 years there has been much research into the development of more complex single-score life cycle impact assessment ...
Mark A J Huijbregts +2 more
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Energies, 2022 In recent years, environmental and energy issues relating to global warming have become more serious, and there is a need to shift from conventional power generation, which emits an abundance of carbon dioxide, to renewable energy sources without ...
Hiromasa Ijuin +4 more
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Energies, 2021 This study investigates the use of division algorithms to optimize the size of a desalination system integrated with a microgrid based on a wind turbine plant and the battery storage to supply freshwater based on cost, reliability, and energy losses ...
Mohammadali Kiehbadroudinezhad +2 more
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Vegan Diet, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, and Cumulative Energy Demand: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial. [PDF]
JAMA Netw OpenThis secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial examined the environmental effect of adopting a low-fat vegan diet on greenhouse gas emissions and cumulative energy demand.
Kahleova H +8 more
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LCA and cumulative energy demand of hemp buildings products
AgathónThe building sector is one of the most environmentally impactful; to reduce its energy consumption, various efforts have been undertaken, including the use of construction materials with low embodied energy, such as hemp.
Maria Chiara Capasso
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Nature Communications, 2023 The growing urban transport sector presents towns and cities with an escalating challenge in the reduction of their greenhouse gas emissions. Here we assess the effectiveness of several widely considered policy options (electrification, light-weighting ...
Lisa Winkler +3 more
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Energy, Sustainability and Society, 2017 Background Global targets for reducing resource use have been set by organizations such as the International Resource Panel and the European Commission. However, these targets exist only at the macro level, e.g., for individual countries. When conducting
Klaus Wiesen, Monika Wirges
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Electricity Generation in Wind Power Plants (Case Study: Kahak Qazvin and Aqkand Miyaneh) [PDF]
Journal of Agricultural Machinery, 2023 IntroductionThe world’s growing population has led to an inevitable increase in energy demand, and this, in addition to the depletion of non-renewable energy sources, can lead to several environmental issues.
M. Nowroozipour +2 more
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