| 来源类型 | Article |
| 规范类型 | 其他 |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.12.001 |
| ISBN | 0921-8009 |
| Renewable electricity producing technologies and metal depletion: a sensitivity analysis using the EROI. | |
| Fizaine, Florian; Court, Victor | |
| 发表日期 | 2015-02-01 |
| 出处 | Ecological Economics |
| 出版者 | Elsevier |
| 出版年 | 2015 |
| 页码 | 106-118 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | More and more attention is being paid to renewable technologies because they are seen as a great opportunity to disengage our society from its dependence on fossil fuels. Such flow-based energy resources that rely on solar energy are supposed to lead us toward a sustainable energy future. However, because of their high capital intensity, renewable technologies require large amounts of matter, including both common and rare metals. These metals require energy for their production, and more specifically for their extraction. The energy cost associated with metal extraction is linked to mineral ore grade, meaning that as depletion progresses, energy cost increases. In addition, renewable energy resources deliver less net energy to society compared to fossil fuels, because of their diffuse nature. It is therefore easy to see that a close relationship exists between energy and metal sectors. In this article, we describe more precisely this relationship by investigating how the energy requirement associated with metal extraction could impact the energy-return-on-investment (EROI) of different renewable and nuclear technologies. More precisely, we present a methodology that can be used to calculate the sensitivity of the EROI of a given technology to a specific or to multiple metal ore grade degradation. We found that if considered separately, the qualitative depletion of a given metal has no significant impact on the EROI of renewable and nuclear technologies, unless its concentration approaches very low grade. However, if all metals are considered together, the EROI of these same technologies could be importantly diminished, especially if they tend to very low concentrations. |
| 关键词 | EROI Renewable energy Metals Net energy Depletion |
| URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/78688/ |
| 来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/468462 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Fizaine, Florian,Court, Victor. Renewable electricity producing technologies and metal depletion: a sensitivity analysis using the EROI.. 2015. |
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