Life cycle human health and ecosystem quality implication of biomass-based strategies to climate change mitigation

This review provides an overview of the environmental impacts of combustion-based electricity generation technologies from six different energy sources, hard coal, brown coal, natural gas, diesel, landfill gas, and wood biomass, using the compiled information from life cycle assessment (LCA) studies. Hard coal has the highest global warming and ecotoxicity impacts, while brown coal and diesel both have high impacts in three out of 10 impact categories. Energy recovery from landfills gas exhibits a great potential to reduce the adverse impacts of landfills without the energy recovery although the level of reduction depends on the energy recovery technologies. The reduction potential of wood biomass-based electricity shows the variability affected by the efficiency of electricity generation and transport distance of the biomass. The application of carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies to current power generation systems demonstrates great reduction potential, particularly in global warming impact with the extent of reduction varying with the applied CCS technologies. This study points out the necessity for standardization of the LCA method for a better comparison of impact assessment results for different fuel sources. An integrated method of LCA with a geographic information system (GIS) is suggested to understand the spatial variability of the impacts of power stations and to investigate the synergetic impacts that could be induced by the close geographical proximity of power stations.

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Section: Environmental Impacts Of Electricity Generationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Comparative Review on the Environmental Impacts of Combustion-Based Electricity Generation Technologies

Cho

Strezov

2020

Energy Fuels

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“…Likewise, if humans eat too much it will affect the environmental damage. Conversely, if humans eat according to good portions then the environment is well maintained (Weldu, 2017;Ha et al, 2016).…”

Section: The Myth Of Wulan Cucumbermentioning

confidence: 99%

The Myths of Babad Banyumas in The View of Health, Social and Ecological Wisdom

Winoto

2019

JSSH

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Babad Banyumas (BU) contains the facts and myths of an event that occurred in the past. BU contains facts about the establishment of the Banyumas region in Central Java and the myths surrounding the stories in it. The facts and interpretations in the BU have been widely studied by academics. On the other hand, the myths in the BU are not studied by academics yet. The myth loses its meaning when faced in this modern era. This study aims to explore the myths in Babad Banyumas. The myth is further interpreted in relation to the field of health, social and ecological wisdom in the current context. Deconstruction and qualitative method with BU text content analysis were used in this research. Data collection was done through observation and interview of some experts. Qualitative data analysis using display data, data reduction and data verification to find common themes were also used as data analysis in this research. The results of the study found that there were four myths in Babad Banyumas, namely cucumber myths, jungle fowl, pendhapa displacement, and myth of having marriage relationship with Dipayuda III. These myths include health, social and ecological wisdom messages.

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“…Solid fuels are relatively cheap, but also less ecological [11,12]. Therefore, hard and brown coal and wood are often used as a basic fuel for heating buildings [13,14]. It should also be noted that more energy-efficient boilers are more expensive than the popular non-ecological old-coal boilers in Poland, in which fuel is burned at too low temperatures [15].…”

Section: Economic Factors Affecting the Generation Of Low Emissionmentioning

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Economic Conditions of Low Emission Reduction in Poland

Piwowar¹,

Dzikuć²,

Kułyk³

et al. 2018

dtcse

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Abstract. The air quality in Poland is one of the worst in the entire European Union. A lot of factors affect a large amount of pollutants that get into the air. The most important of them include heating buildings, road transport and the functioning of industry. A large part of the pollutants that get into the air belongs to low emission, which appears at a low altitude above ground level (up to 40 m). In Poland there are exceedances of harmful substances in the air due to the lack of solutions that exist in other EU countries. However, these solutions are often costly and the authorities in Poland in recent years have not taken action that would help to solve the problem of poor air quality. The paper presents economic conditions that are related to reducing emissions in Poland.

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Life cycle human health and ecosystem quality implication of biomass-based strategies to climate change mitigation

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A Comparative Review on the Environmental Impacts of Combustion-Based Electricity Generation Technologies

A Comparative Review on the Environmental Impacts of Combustion-Based Electricity Generation Technologies

The Myths of Babad Banyumas in The View of Health, Social and Ecological Wisdom

Economic Conditions of Low Emission Reduction in Poland

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