Energy, Technology, and Society
  • Introduction
  • Energy History
    • Context and Motivation
    • History
  • Energy Estimations and Models
    • Models
    • Tools
    • Computation
  • Energy Services
    • Types of Energy
  • Energy Production
    • Fossil Fuels
    • Nuclear Energy
    • Solar Energy
    • Wind Energy
    • Hydropower
    • Biomass Energy
  • Energy and Society
    • Energy Policy
    • Social Science
    • Evidence and Belief
  • Carbon Plans
    • Transportation
    • Food
  • Course Materials
    • Physical Science Fundamentals
    • Thermodynamics
    • Circuit Models
    • Intersections
    • Metrics
    • Unused Notes
    • Exercises
    • Quizzes
    • Homework
    • Reading Assignments
    • Project
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  1. Carbon Plans

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Life Cycle Analysis

A technique that estimates the impacts of a good or service looking at the entire life span of the product from creation to disposal or recycling.

For example, our transportation examples look at fuel use but we haven't considered the energy to make the material for the car or the energy to assemble the car.

Resources

University of Michigan Carbon Footprint Factsheet

Environmental Working Group

Shrink That Footprint

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