Einstein's lessons for energy accounting in LCA

International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 266-272

  Frischknccht, Rolf ^a,b   Heijungs, Reinout ^c   Hofstetter, Patrick ^b  

^a ESU services   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conservation of mass energy; Energy; Impact assessment; Inherent energy; LCA; Life Cycle Assessment; Life cycle inventory analysis; Relativity theory; Resources; Safeguard subjects

Indexed keywords

ACCOUNTING; CALCIFICATION; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; HEATING; INVENTORY CONTROL; LIFE CYCLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0031795395     PISSN: 09483349     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02979833     Document Type: Review

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