/non-linearity-LCA

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non-linearity-LCA

Description

This is the code used in the analysis presented in:

Pizzol M, Sacchi R, Köhler S, Erjavec AE. Nonlinearity in the life cycle assessment of scalable and emerging technologies. Frontiers in Sustainability

Contributors

Folder structure

  • Bitcoin_Mining

Code to calculate carbon footprint of upscaling Bitcoin mining using a baseline scenario, a mining location-sensitive scenario, a mining equipment-sensitive scenario, and both a location- and equipment-sensitive scenario.

  • ei-simulation

Code to estimate quantitatively the effect of assuming activities in a product system scale up linearly when in fact they don’t using computer simulation applied to an entire database (ecoinvent)

  • truck analysis

Analysis on the effect of incrementing demand for transported load on the unitary performance of a truck, across different size classes and powertrains.