Carbon emission and mitigation cost comparisons between fossil fuel, nuclear and renewable energy resources for electricity generation

Energy Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2003, Pages 1315-1326

  Sims, Ralph E H ^a   Rogner, Hans Holger ^b   Gregory, Ken ^c  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c Ctr for Bus and the Environment   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Carbon emissions; Electricity generation; Mitigation potential

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC INDUSTRY; FOSSIL FUELS; NUCLEAR FUELS; PARTICULATE EMISSIONS; PULVERIZED FUEL; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; STEAM POWER PLANTS;

CARBON EMISSIONS;

CARBON;

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY; CARBON EMISSION; ELECTRICITY GENERATION; FOSSIL FUEL; MITIGATION;

EID: 0037955667     PISSN: 03014215     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0301-4215(02)00192-1     Document Type: Article

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