Birth to death analysis of the energy payback ratio and CO2 gas emission rates from coal, fission, wind, and DT-fusion electrical power plants

Fusion Engineering and Design

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 473-481

  White, Scott W ^a   Kulcinski, Gerald L ^b  

^a University of Kansas Energy Research Center   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electric Machines and Power Electronics Consortium   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL; ENERGY RESOURCES; FISSION REACTIONS; FUSION REACTIONS; GAS EMISSIONS; WIND POWER;

ENERGY PAYBACK RATIO;

ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION;

EID: 0034258728     PISSN: 09203796     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0920-3796(00)00158-7     Document Type: Article

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