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Life-cycle assessment

Life cycle assessment (LCA), also known as life cycle analysis, is methodology for assessing the impacts associated with all the stages of the life cycle of a commercial product, process, or service. For instance, in the case of a manufactured product, environmental impacts are assessed from raw material extraction and processing (cradle), through the…

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Life cycle energy analysis

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Exergetic material input per unit of serviceinstance ofThis intuition confirmed by DeWulf and Sciubba lead to Exergo-economic accounting and to methods specifically dedicated to LCA0.80text
cost analysis or exergy may be used as the metric for LCAinstance ofApproaches0.80text
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Life-cycle assessmentrelated to External linksMedia0.60section
Life-cycle assessmentrelated to External linksLife-cycle0.60section
Life-cycle assessmentrelated to External linksWikimedia Commons Embodied Energy0.60section

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