Devising Mineral Resource Supply Pathways to a Low-Carbon Electricity Generation by 2100

Autor: Nadia Maïzi, Antoine Boubault
Přispěvatelé: Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (CMA), MINES ParisTech - École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM) (BRGM), Chaire MPDD
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
life-cycle inventories
Resource (biology)
020209 energy
Context (language use)
Time horizon
02 engineering and technology
010501 environmental sciences
Management
Monitoring
Policy and Law
Raw material
socioeconomic metabolism
01 natural sciences
7. Clean energy
industrial ecology
decoupling
prospective scenario analysis
Environmental protection
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering
lcsh:Science
integrated assessment models
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Nature and Landscape Conservation
business.industry
Circular economy
Fossil fuel
[SPI.NRJ]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Electric power
TIAM-FR
[SDE.ES]Environmental Sciences/Environmental and Society
Carbon neutrality
13. Climate action
Environmental science
lcsh:Q
Industrial ecology
mineral resources
business
Zdroj: Resources
Volume 8
Issue 1
Resources, MDPI, 2019, 8 (1), pp.33. ⟨10.3390/resources8010033⟩
Resources, Vol 8, Iss 1, p 33 (2019)
ISSN: 2079-9276
DOI: 10.3390/resources8010033
Popis: Achieving a &ldquo
carbon neutral&rdquo
world by 2100 or earlier in a context of economic growth implies a drastic and profound transformation of the way energy is supplied and consumed in our societies. In this paper, we use life-cycle inventories of electricity-generating technologies and an integrated assessment model (TIMES Integrated Assessment Model) to project the global raw material requirements in two scenarios: a second shared socioeconomic pathway baseline, and a 2 °
C scenario by 2100. Material usage reported in the life-cycle inventories is distributed into three phases, namely construction, operation, and decommissioning. Material supply dynamics and the impact of the 2 °
C warming limit are quantified for three raw fossil fuels and forty-eight metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources. Depending on the time horizon, graphite, sand, sulfur, borates, aluminum, chromium, nickel, silver, gold, rare earth elements or their substitutes could face a sharp increase in usage as a result of a massive installation of low-carbon technologies. Ignoring nonfuel resource availability and value in deep decarbonation, circular economy, or decoupling scenarios can potentially generate misleading, contradictory, or unachievable climate policies.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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