A Guide to lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from electric supply technologies
http://www.iaea.org/OurWork/
Michele Kearney's Nuclear Wire - Major Energy and Environmental News and Commentary affecting the Nuclear Industry. Nuclear Activities
For the developed world the following are reasonable averages for grams of CO2 emitted per kWhr produced (Pacca and Horvath 2002; Vattenfall 2003; POST 2006):
ReplyDelete975 gCO2/kWhr from coal
600 gCO2/kWhr from natural gas
90 gCO2/kWhr from hydro
55 gCO2/kWhr from solar
15 gCO2/kWhr from wind
15 gCO2/kWhr from nuclear
PACCA, S. and HORVATH, A., Greenhouse gas emissions from building and operating electric power plants in the upper Colorado River basin Environ. Sci. Technol., 36, 3194-3200 (2002).
POST, Carbon Footprint of Electricity Generation, Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology, London, October 2006 Number 268 (2006).
VATTENFALL, Swedish wind power plants, Vattenfall AB EPD report, Stockholm (2003).
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