Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources, the Glossary
Greenhouse gas emissions are one of the environmental impacts of electricity generation.[1]
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Albedo
Albedo is the fraction of sunlight that is diffusely reflected by a body.
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Anthracite
Anthracite, also known as hard coal and black coal, is a hard, compact variety of coal that has a submetallic lustre.
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Atmospheric circulation
Atmospheric circulation is the large-scale movement of air and together with ocean circulation is the means by which thermal energy is redistributed on the surface of the Earth.
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Électricité de France
Électricité de France SA (literally Electricity of France), commonly known as EDF, is a French multinational electric utility company owned by the government of France.
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Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage
Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) is the process of extracting bioenergy from biomass and capturing and storing the carbon, thereby removing it from the atmosphere.
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Biomass
Biomass is a term used in several contexts: in the context of ecology it means living organisms, and in the context of bioenergy it means matter from recently living (but now dead) organisms.
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Cadmium telluride photovoltaics
Cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaics is a photovoltaic (PV) technology based on the use of cadmium telluride in a thin semiconductor layer designed to absorb and convert sunlight into electricity.
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Carbon capture and storage
Carbon capture and storage (CCS) is a process in which a relatively pure stream of carbon dioxide (CO2) from industrial sources is separated, treated and transported to a long-term storage location.
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A carbon footprint (or greenhouse gas footprint) is a calculated value or index that makes it possible to compare the total amount of greenhouse gases that an activity, product, company or country adds to the atmosphere. Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources and carbon footprint are greenhouse gas emissions.
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Central heating
A central heating system provides warmth to a number of spaces within a building from one main source of heat.
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Climate change mitigation
Climate change mitigation (or decarbonisation) is action to limit the greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that cause climate change.
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Coal
Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.
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Coal burner
A coal burner (or pulverized coal burner) is a mechanical device that burns pulverized coal (also known as powdered coal or coal dust since it is as fine as face powder in cosmetic makeup) into a flame in a controlled manner.
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Coal dust
Coal dust is a fine-powdered form of coal which is created by the crushing, grinding, or pulverization of coal rock.
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Combined cycle power plant
A combined cycle power plant is an assembly of heat engines that work in tandem from the same source of heat, converting it into mechanical energy.
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Concentrated solar power
Concentrated solar power (CSP, also known as concentrating solar power, concentrated solar thermal) systems generate solar power by using mirrors or lenses to concentrate a large area of sunlight into a receiver.
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Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context
The Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context (informally called the Espoo Convention) is a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) convention signed in Espoo, Finland, in 1991 that entered into force in 1997.
Copper indium gallium selenide solar cell
A copper indium gallium selenide solar cell (or CIGS cell, sometimes CI(G)S or CIS cell) is a thin-film solar cell used to convert sunlight into electric power.
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Dam removal
Dam removal is the process of demolishing a dam, returning water flow to the river.
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District heating
District heating (also known as heat networks) is a system for distributing heat generated in a centralized location through a system of insulated pipes for residential and commercial heating requirements such as space heating and water heating.
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Earth's energy budget
Earth's energy budget (or Earth's energy balance) accounts for the balance between the energy that Earth receives from the Sun and the energy the Earth loses back into outer space. Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources and Earth's energy budget are energy.
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Efficient energy use
Efficient energy use, or energy efficiency, is the process of reducing the amount of energy required to provide products and services.
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Energiewende
The paren-left is the ongoing energy transition by Germany to a low carbon, environmentally sound, reliable, and affordable energy supply.
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Environmental impact of electricity generation
Electric power systems consist of generation plants of different energy sources, transmission networks, and distribution lines.
Generation II reactor
A generation II reactor is a design classification for a nuclear reactor, and refers to the class of commercial reactors built until the end of the 1990s.
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Generation III reactor
Generation III reactors, or Gen III reactors, are a class of nuclear reactors designed to succeed Generation II reactors, incorporating evolutionary improvements in design.
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Geothermal power
Geothermal power is electrical power generated from geothermal energy.
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Geothermal power in Italy
Geothermal power accounts for about 1.6-1.8% of the total electric energy production in Italy and is about 7% of the total renewable energy produced in 2010.
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Global warming potential
Global warming potential (GWP) is an index to measure how much infrared thermal radiation a greenhouse gas would absorb over a given time frame after it has been added to the atmosphere (or emitted to the atmosphere). Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources and Global warming potential are greenhouse gas emissions.
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Greenfield status
Greenfield status (also known as "unrestricted re-use") is an end point wherein a parcel of land that had been in industrial use is, in principle, restored to the conditions existing before the construction of the plant.
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Greenhouse gas emissions
Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from human activities intensify the greenhouse effect.
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Heat pump
A heat pump is a device that consumes work (or electricity) to transfer heat from a cold heat sink to a hot heat sink.
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Hoover Dam
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona.
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Hydroelectricity
Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).
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Hydrogen economy
The hydrogen economy is an umbrella term for the roles hydrogen can play alongside low-carbon electricity to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Hydropower
Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to produce electricity or to power machines.
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Integrated gasification combined cycle
An integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) is a technology using a high pressure gasifier to turn coal and other carbon based fuels into pressurized gas—synthesis gas (syngas).
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations.
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ISO 14000 family
The ISO 14000 family of standards by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) relate to environmental management that exists to help organizations (a) minimize how their operations (processes, etc.) negatively affect the environment (i.e. cause adverse changes to air, water, or land); (b) comply with applicable laws, regulations, and other environmentally oriented requirements; and (c) continually improve in the above.
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Kilowatt-hour
A kilowatt-hour (unit symbol: kW⋅h or kW h; commonly written as kWh) is a non-SI unit of energy equal to 3.6 megajoules (MJ) in SI units which is the energy delivered by one kilowatt of power for one hour.
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Life-cycle assessment
Life cycle assessment (LCA), also known as life cycle analysis, is a methodology for assessing environmental impacts associated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service.
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Low-carbon economy
A low-carbon economy (LCE) is an economy which absorbs as much greenhouse gas as it emits.
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Low-carbon electricity
Low-carbon electricity or low-carbon power is electricity produced with substantially lower greenhouse gas emissions over the entire lifecycle than power generation using fossil fuels.
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The median of a set of numbers is the value separating the higher half from the lower half of a data sample, a population, or a probability distribution.
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Natural gas
Natural gas (also called fossil gas, methane gas or simply gas) is a naturally occurring mixture of gaseous hydrocarbons consisting primarily of methane (95%) in addition to various smaller amounts of other higher alkanes.
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Nature (journal)
Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England.
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Nuclear power
Nuclear power is the use of nuclear reactions to produce electricity.
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Nuclear power proposed as renewable energy
Whether nuclear power should be considered a form of renewable energy is an ongoing subject of debate. Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources and nuclear power proposed as renewable energy are nuclear power.
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Photovoltaic system
A photovoltaic system, also called a PV system or solar power system, is an electric power system designed to supply usable solar power by means of photovoltaics.
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Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics (PV) is the conversion of light into electricity using semiconducting materials that exhibit the photovoltaic effect, a phenomenon studied in physics, photochemistry, and electrochemistry.
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Polycrystalline silicon
Polycrystalline silicon, or multicrystalline silicon, also called polysilicon, poly-Si, or mc-Si, is a high purity, polycrystalline form of silicon, used as a raw material by the solar photovoltaic and electronics industry.
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Pulverized coal-fired boiler
A pulverized coal-fired boiler is an industrial or utility boiler that generates thermal energy by burning pulverized coal (also known as powdered coal or coal dust since it is as fine as face powder in cosmetic makeup) that is blown into the firebox.
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Repowering
Repowering is the process of replacing older power stations with newer ones that either have a greater nameplate capacity or more efficiency which results in a net increase of power generated.
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Supercritical steam generator
A supercritical steam generator is a type of boiler that operates at supercritical pressure and temperature, frequently used in the production of electric power.
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Techno-economic assessment
Techno-economic assessment or techno-economic analysis (abbreviated TEA) is a method of analyzing the economic performance of an industrial process, product, or service.
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Thermal power station
A thermal power station is a type of power station in which heat energy is converted to electrical energy.
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Three Gorges Dam
The Three Gorges Dam is a hydroelectric gravity dam that spans the Yangtze River near Sandouping in Yiling District, Yichang, Hubei province, central China, downstream of the Three Gorges.
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Tidal power
Tidal power or tidal energy is harnessed by converting energy from tides into useful forms of power, mainly electricity using various methods.
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United Nations Economic Commission for Europe
The United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (ECE or UNECE) is one of the five regional commissions under the jurisdiction of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Wave power
Wave power is the capture of energy of wind waves to do useful work – for example, electricity generation, water desalination, or pumping water.
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Wind power
Wind power is the use of wind energy to generate useful work.
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Wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy.
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Yale University
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut.
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See also
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- Comparison of the imperial and US customary measurement systems
- Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems
- Hardness comparison
- Integrative and Comparative Biology
- Life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of energy sources
- Relationship between chemistry and physics
- Relationship between mathematics and physics
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emissions_of_energy_sources
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