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Appendix E: Attributes of Life-Cycle Assessment
Appendix E: Attributes of Life-Cycle Assessment
Pages 357-360
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In addition to being very time intensive, the PA can be limited in its utility by the fact that there is often a lack of information concerning one or more components of the technology, and this can lead to truncation errors. EIO, on the other hand, does not track individual components, but instead uses economy sector level data to quantify the relationship between energy and the materials and processes produced.
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For example, the construction of a wind turbine in Sweden where much of the energy is produced using renewable sources will generally have less embedded CO2 emis sions than the same turbine produced in the United States, where coal-fired power plants generate a significant fraction of the electricity available on the grid. A further source of discrepancies for LCAs arises from the fact that these assessments are aimed at technologies that are often undergoing continuous modi fication and improvement.
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2008. Life cycle GHG assessment of fossil fuel power plants with carbon capture and storage.
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