Timeline for Do "solar panels require 10 times the minerals to deliver the same quantity of energy as a natural gas plant"?
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| Feb 22, 2022 at 20:30 | history | edited | jkej | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 22, 2022 at 20:21 | comment | added | Schwern | "Life cycle impacts" in Fig 9, 10, and 22-25 give the total picture. Excellent find. | |
| Feb 22, 2022 at 18:52 | history | edited | jkej | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 22, 2022 at 18:30 | comment | added | Clumsy cat | @jkej good catch. Maybe it's reasonable to exclude recycling; only about 17% of tech products get recycled (in the EU). Not sure about infrastructure. | |
| Feb 22, 2022 at 18:25 | comment | added | jkej | @LShaver I think table 1 on page 10 also indicates that they are including "all infrastructure construction, operation, and dismantling", "from extraction to combustion". The main thing that is excluded is "potential recycling of dismantled equipment", but that seems to be the same for all technologies. | |
| Feb 22, 2022 at 18:15 | comment | added | jkej | @LShaver I can't find specific mentions of material resource use for "wells" and "pipelines". But in figure 9 on page 22, they break down impacts on categories like "Natural gas production", "Natural gas transportation", "Power plant" and "Electricity production". I would imagine that construction of wells and pipelines are accounted for under production and transportation. Strangely there seems to be almost no impact from transportation, but I guess that pipeline construction might fall under production. Transportation is perhaps only road and sea transportation. | |
| Feb 22, 2022 at 17:58 | comment | added | LShaver | +1, nice find. Does the report talk at all about natural gas infrastructure, i.e. wells and pipelines to bring a MWh of gas to the plant? | |
| Feb 22, 2022 at 17:54 | history | answered | jkej | CC BY-SA 4.0 |