Life Cycle Assessment of Inland Green Hydrogen Supply Chain Networks with Current Challenges and Future Prospects

Author(s):  
Malik Sajawal Akhtar ◽  
Rofice Dickson ◽  
J. Jay Liu
Author(s):  
Marta Rossi ◽  
Alessandra Papetti ◽  
Marco Marconi ◽  
Michele Germani

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 1370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shutaro Takeda ◽  
Alexander Keeley ◽  
Shigeki Sakurai ◽  
Shunsuke Managi ◽  
Catherine Norris

The adoption of renewable energy technologies in developing nations is recognized to have positive environmental impacts; however, what are their effects on the electricity supply chain workers? This article provides a quantitative analysis on this question through a relatively new framework called social life cycle assessment, taking Malaysia as a case example. Impact assessments by the authors show that electricity from renewables has greater adverse impacts on supply chain workers than the conventional electricity mix: Electricity production with biomass requires 127% longer labor hours per unit-electricity under the risk of human rights violations, while the solar photovoltaic requires 95% longer labor hours per unit-electricity. However, our assessment also indicates that renewables have less impacts per dollar-spent. In fact, the impact of solar photovoltaic would be 60% less than the conventional mix when it attains grid parity. The answer of “are renewables as friendly to humans as to the environment?” is “not-yet, but eventually.”


2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-331
Author(s):  
Tatsuya WADAGUCHI ◽  
Takamichi OCHI ◽  
Sayaka OGA ◽  
Issui IHARA ◽  
Shoichiro TSURUTA ◽  
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