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Life Cycle Assessment

Professor Giola Falcone, holder of the Rakine Chair of Energy Engineering at Glasgow University on life cycle impact assessment of energy projects.

Professor Giola Falcone, holder of the Rakine Chair of Energy Engineering at Glasgow University on life cycle impact assessment of energy projects.

She reviews the basic principles of the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approach and briefly discusses how it can be used to determine the socio-environmental impacts of energy projects. She concludes with the example of blue hydrogen.

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