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The sustainable indicators are characterized by a low degree of aggregation and a high amount of information. An indicator must show a synthetic representation of a real environmental, by using a value or a parameter, so that they can be easily used by policy makers. It is necessary to connect,...
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Oil and related products continue to be prime enablers of the maintenance and growth of nearly all of the world's economies. The dramatic increase in the price of oil through mid-2008, along with the coincident (and possibly resultant) global recession, highlight our continued vulnerability to...
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renewable energy potential, and energy uses are surveyed. A brief discussion of the status, sustainability (economic … and buildings are brought up. Ways to resolve the problem of the availability, cost, and sustainability of energy … potential, foreseen improvements and their time scale, and last year’s trends in government funding are presented. …
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The issue of subjectivity in assigning weights for the domains and aspects in sustainability rating systems has not …
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-based environmental and sustainability parameters are applied to an electrolysis process for hydrogen production. Accordingly, the … increases from 10 to 90%, the sustainability index rises from 0.01 to 8.1. Thus, solar hydrogen production should be used for … practical applications because of higher exergetic sustainability potential and lower environmental destruction index. …
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-criteria optimization framework in order to create objective bounds for each sustainability indicator. This extension solves the relative …
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Electricity generation contributes a large proportion of the total greenhouse gas emissions in the United Kingdom (UK), due to the predominant use of fossil fuel (coal and natural gas) combustion for this purpose. A range of future UK energy scenarios has been employed to determine their...
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major overhaul of the market structure under the new scheme, the sustainability of the grid-connected oil palm biomass … market response to six sustainability-related topics. The research methods include electronic and conventional postal modes …
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sustainability of energy resources alongside the rapidly rising demand are discussed. The author's view of the promising energy … government funding are presented. …
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This paper describes the theoretical rationale for a new low temperature phase-change desalination process, and six examples of applications to illustrate how this process can be engineered for sustainable desalination. In this process, brackish water is evaporated at near-ambient temperatures...
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