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Transitioning to Low-Carbon Residential Heating: The Impacts of Material-Related Emissions
[Image: see text] To achieve climate neutrality, future urban heating systems will need to use a variety of low-carbon heating technologies. The transition toward low-carbon heating technologies necessitates a complete restructuring of the heating system, with significant associated material require...
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American Chemical Society
2022
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9228087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35549248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c06362 |
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author | Verhagen, Teun Johannes Cetinay, Hale van der Voet, Ester Sprecher, Benjamin |
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description | [Image: see text] To achieve climate neutrality, future urban heating systems will need to use a variety of low-carbon heating technologies. The transition toward low-carbon heating technologies necessitates a complete restructuring of the heating system, with significant associated material requirements. However, little research has been done into the quantity and environmental impact of the required materials for this system change. We analyzed the material demand and the environmental impact of the transition toward low-carbon heating in the Netherlands across three scenarios based on the local availability and capacity for sources of low-carbon heat. A wide range of materials are included, covering aggregates, construction materials, metals, plastics, and critical materials. We find that while the Dutch policy goal of reducing GHG emissions by 90% before 2050 can be achieved if only direct emissions from the heating system are considered, this is no longer the case when the cradle-to-gate emissions from the additional materials, especially insulation materials, are taken into account. The implementation of these technologies will require 59–63 megatons of materials in the period of 2021–2050, leading to a maximum reduction of 62%. |
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spelling | pubmed-92280872022-06-25 Transitioning to Low-Carbon Residential Heating: The Impacts of Material-Related Emissions Verhagen, Teun Johannes Cetinay, Hale van der Voet, Ester Sprecher, Benjamin Environ Sci Technol [Image: see text] To achieve climate neutrality, future urban heating systems will need to use a variety of low-carbon heating technologies. The transition toward low-carbon heating technologies necessitates a complete restructuring of the heating system, with significant associated material requirements. However, little research has been done into the quantity and environmental impact of the required materials for this system change. We analyzed the material demand and the environmental impact of the transition toward low-carbon heating in the Netherlands across three scenarios based on the local availability and capacity for sources of low-carbon heat. A wide range of materials are included, covering aggregates, construction materials, metals, plastics, and critical materials. We find that while the Dutch policy goal of reducing GHG emissions by 90% before 2050 can be achieved if only direct emissions from the heating system are considered, this is no longer the case when the cradle-to-gate emissions from the additional materials, especially insulation materials, are taken into account. The implementation of these technologies will require 59–63 megatons of materials in the period of 2021–2050, leading to a maximum reduction of 62%. American Chemical Society 2022-05-12 2022-06-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9228087/ /pubmed/35549248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c06362 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Published by American Chemical Society https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Permits the broadest form of re-use including for commercial purposes, provided that author attribution and integrity are maintained (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Verhagen, Teun Johannes Cetinay, Hale van der Voet, Ester Sprecher, Benjamin Transitioning to Low-Carbon Residential Heating: The Impacts of Material-Related Emissions |
title | Transitioning
to Low-Carbon Residential Heating: The
Impacts of Material-Related Emissions |
title_full | Transitioning
to Low-Carbon Residential Heating: The
Impacts of Material-Related Emissions |
title_fullStr | Transitioning
to Low-Carbon Residential Heating: The
Impacts of Material-Related Emissions |
title_full_unstemmed | Transitioning
to Low-Carbon Residential Heating: The
Impacts of Material-Related Emissions |
title_short | Transitioning
to Low-Carbon Residential Heating: The
Impacts of Material-Related Emissions |
title_sort | transitioning
to low-carbon residential heating: the
impacts of material-related emissions |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9228087/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35549248 http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c06362 |
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