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Sustainable energy transitions will be hampered without sufficient public support. Hence, it is important to understand what drives public acceptability of (sustainable) energy alternatives. Evaluations of specific costs, including risks, and benefits of different energy alternatives have been...
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Anaerobic digestion often generates ‘biogas’ – an approximately 3:1 mixture of methane and carbon dioxide – which has been known to be a ‘clean’ fuel since the late 19th century. But a great resurgence of interest in biogas capture – hence methane capture – has occurred in recent...
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have been made of Chinese CDM projects, one industrial sector that has received little attention has been mining. In … quantitative reductions of greenhouse gas emissions and indicators of contributions to sustainable development. The sustainability … and that these are arguably insufficient in detail. Although varying types of sustainability initiatives were identified …
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This paper presents a transferable and adaptable approach for selecting a suitable Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) method covering the stages of the ‘MCA cycle’ for decision making in the renewable energy sector. Selecting a suitable MCA method for an individual project or case study is a...
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The sustainability goals for soy biodiesel are to contribute to energy security by providing a domestically sourced …, and to improve the quality of life. Sustainability is more than just greenhouse gas savings. The main aspects of … sustainability of soy biodiesel are environmental, economic and social effects of production and use. The intent of this paper is to …
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This paper highlights an evaluation of the potential level and nature of sustainability for large-scale photovoltaic … (PV) solar power plants. This was achieved by applying a mathematical model of sustainability to the results of a …
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In this contribution a particular attention is being given to the strategic objective for the establishment of a North Africa (NA) countries cooperation on water and clean energy superhighway as the solution to regional energy challenges, water shortages, climate change and other environmental...
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a sustainability perspective the integrated algal biofuels production, where biodiesel, bioethanol and biogas are …
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sustainability of green building, especially the social sustainability is largely overlooked. Future research opportunities were …
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Sustainability policy in the early 2000s is based on and therefore influenced by scientific literature on ‘transition …, ‘transformation’, which is also used in the context of socio-technical shifts towards sustainability. We expose the different …
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