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Josep L. Pelegrí
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Department d'Oceanografia Física i Tecnològica; Institut de Ciencias del Mar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Unidad Asociada ULPGC-CSIC; Barcelona Spain
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Transportation in a 100% renewable energy system
Published: 01 February 2018
Energy Conversion and Management,
doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2017.12.053
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A 100% renewable economy would give a lasting solution to the challenges raised by climate change, energy security, sustainability, and pollution. The conversion of the present transport system appears to be one of the most difficult aspects of such renewable transition. This study reviews the technologies and systems that are being proposed or proven as alternative to fossil-fuel based transportation, and their prospects for their entry into the post-carbon era, from both technological and energetic viewpoints. The energetic cost of the transition from the current transportation system into global 100% renewable transportation is estimated, as well as the electrical energy required for the operation of the new renewable transportation sector. A 100% renewable transport providing the same service as global transport in 2014 would demand about 18% less energy. The main reduction is expected in road transport (69%), but the shipping and air sectors would notably increase their consumptions: 163% and 149%, respectively. The analysis concludes that a 100% renewable transportation is feasible, but not necessarily compatible with indefinite increase of resources consumption. The major material and energy limitations and obstacles of each transport sector for this transition are shown.
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Renewable transitions and the net energy from oil liquids: A scenarios study
Published: 01 February 2018
Renewable Energy,
doi: 10.1016/j.renene.2017.09.035
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A system of containment to prevent oil spills from sunken tankers
Published: 01 September 2017
Science of The Total Environment,
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.152
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Energy for a sustainable post-carbon society
Published: 30 September 2016
Scientia Marina,
doi: 10.3989/scimar.04295.12A
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Substituting silver in solar photovoltaics is feasible and allows for decentralization in smart regional grids
Published: 01 December 2015
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions,
doi: 10.1016/j.eist.2015.05.004
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Substitutability of Electricity and Renewable Materials for Fossil Fuels in a Post-Carbon Economy
Published: 25 November 2015
Energies,
doi: 10.3390/en81212371
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A feasible way to avoid the risk of energy decline and combat climate change is to build a 100% renewable global energy mix. However, a globally electrified economy cannot grow much above 12 electric terawatts without putting pressure on the limits of finite mineral reserves. Here we analyze whether 12 TW of electricity and 1 TW of biomass (final) power will be able to fuel a future post-carbon economy that can provide similar services to those of a contemporary economy. Contrarily to some pessimistic expectations, this analysis shows that the principle economic processes can be replaced with sustainable alternatives based on electricity, charcoal, biogas and hydrogen. Furthermore, those services that cannot be replaced are not as crucial so as to cause a return to a pre-industrial society. Even so, land transport and aviation are at the limit of what is sustainable, outdoor work should be reorganized, metal primary production should be based on hydrogen reduction when possible, mineral production should be increasingly based on recycling, the petrochemical industry should shrink to a size of 40%–43% of the 2012 petrochemical sector, i.e., a size similar to that the sector had in 1985–1986, and agriculture may require organic farming methods to be sustainable.