Illustrating anticipatory life cycle assessment for emerging photovoltaic technologies

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 48, Issue 18, 2014, Pages 10531-10538

  Wender, Ben A ^a,b   Foley, Rider W ^b,f   Prado Lopez, Valentina ^a   Ravikumar, Dwarakanath ^a   Eisenberg, Daniel A ^a   Hottle, Troy A ^a   Sadowski, Jathan ^b   Flanagan, William P ^c   Fisher, Angela ^c   Laurin, Lise ^d   Bates, Matthew E ^e   Linkov, Igor ^e   Seager, Thomas P ^a,b   Fraser, Matthew P ^a,b   Guston, David H ^b  

^a Arizona State University   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY   (United States)

^d Earthshift LLC   (United States)

^e US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

^f University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; SILICON; TELLURIUM;

LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; PHOTOVOLTAIC SYSTEM;

ARTICLE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOVOLTAIC TECHNOLOGY; RENEWABLE ENERGY; DEVICE MATERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; POLLUTION; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RISK; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TECHNOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRENDS;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POLICY MAKING; RISK; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 84923027439     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es5016923     Document Type: Article

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