▪ Abstract Assessments of global coal, oil, and natural gas occurrences usually focus on
conventional hydrocarbon reserves, ie those occurrences that can be exploited with current …

Most energy systems models treat reductions of technology investment costs exogenously.
In these models, investments may be postponed until the costs become low. This model …

Life-cycle analysis is a method for calculating all the social and environmental impacts of a
given technological solution, from procurement of resources and materials to waste …

Reforestation has a great potential to fix carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere through
photosynthesis of biomass and biomass energy conversion. The magnitude of CO2 fixation …

This paper addresses the issues involved with an interior point-based decomposition
applied to the solution of linear programs with a block-angular structure. Unlike classical …

Analysis of carbon emissions paths stabilizing atmospheric CO {sub 2} in the 350--750 ppmv
range reveals that implementing the UN Climate Convention will become increasingly …