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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"climate benefits"”.
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The Net Climate Impact of AI: Balancing Current Costs with Future Climate Benefits
… is the net impact of artificial intelligence on climate change? Existing studies focus on AI's footprint, but few analyze AI's trade-offs. This paper develops a framework to quantify both the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions and the climate change costs and benefits of AI systems, addressing the …
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Torrefied wood pellets as an alternative fuel to coal : climate benefits and social desirability of production and use
The objective of this thesis is to study the climate impacts and the social returns and social desirability of torrefied wood pellet production and use as an alternative fuel to coal. The raw material of torrefied pellets is forest chips and production and use are assumed to take place in Finland. …
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EVALUATING THE POTENTIAL OF TEMPERATE INLAND MINERAL SOIL WETLANDS AS NATURAL CLIMATE SOLUTIONS
Increasing global efforts aim to mitigate climate change by leveraging natural climate solutions (NCS), with temperate inland mineral soil wetlands emerging as key ecosystems due to their ability to sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO₂) while providing numerous co-benefits. However, wetlands …
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CO₂ and public health impacts of US residential heating electrification
… centers to electric generators. However, these benefits have not been assessed. This thesis quantifies the health impacts of replacing residential combustion heating with electric heating in the US due to changes in air quality. In addition, we calculate how such a change would affect fossil CO₂ …
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Soil-atmosphere fluxes of CO2 and CH4 in annual and perennial cropping systems in southern Sweden
… temperatures. These results suggest promising climate benefits from perennial grains, but underscore the need for long-term, full-season studies to better understand how annual and perennial cropping systems influence soil–atmosphere fluxes of greenhouse gases.
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EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF BIOMETRIC APPROACHES FOR VERIFICATION AND MONITORING IN COMMERCIAL FOREST CARBON ACCOUNTING
… natural ecosystem management, Forest-based Climate Solutions (FbCS) are believed to offer the greatest mitigation potential. As more funds are allocated towards FbCS deployment, questions arise regarding their actual mitigation potential and the extent to which status-quo approaches can …
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Agricultural Waste Utilization: Life Cycle Assessment for Selecting Carbon-Management Best Practices on a Global Scale
… centralized facilities while maintaining GHG benefits for the scenarios. The results of this study highlight that electricity generation using crop residues, either through pyrolysis or direct residue combustion, offers the greatest climate benefits among all evaluated options. Carbon …
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Modeling economies and ecosystems in general equilibrium
… configurations. Results reveal that the benefits of reductions in oxides of nitrogen and sulfur from a carbon policy in the US electric sector are on the order of $10 bn., which rival the policy's welfare costs and make 12-13% carbon abatement economically justifiable without considering …
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Environmental and economic assessment of alternative transportation fuels
… human health impacts related to air quality, and climate damage. We find that aircraft operators can save up to 14% on fuel expenses (retrofit costs included) by employing LNG retrofits, with a 95% confidence interval of 2-23%. Society can also benefit by 12% (3-20%) from LNG use as a result of …
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Reducing the air quality impacts of aircraft activity at airports
… airports generates CO2 emissions that affect the climate and other pollutants that affect air quality and human health. The focus of this thesis is to enable the reduction of the air quality impacts of aircraft operations at airports by (1) advancing the understanding of the relationship between …
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Identification and Quantification of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Oil and Natural Gas Operations Using an Aircraft-Based Mass Balance Technique
… of facility throughput is enough to negate the climate benefits incurred by use of natural gas instead of coal. Additionally, the Obama administration has set an aggressive mitigation goal of 26-28% emission reduction by 2025, as compared to 2005 levels. To achieve this target, emission sources …
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Partitioning Biological and Anthropogenic Methane Sources
… irreversible and catastrophic changes in global climate. Natural gas could provide lower-carbon fossil energy, but the climate benefits of this fuel source are highly dependent on the associated methane emissions. In this context of increasing uncertainty and growing necessity, quantifying the …