| Literature DB >> 29954954 |
Steven J Davis1,2, Nathan S Lewis3, Matthew Shaner4, Sonia Aggarwal5, Doug Arent6,7, Inês L Azevedo8, Sally M Benson9,10,11, Thomas Bradley12, Jack Brouwer13,14, Yet-Ming Chiang15, Christopher T M Clack16, Armond Cohen17, Stephen Doig18, Jae Edmonds19, Paul Fennell20,21, Christopher B Field22, Bryan Hannegan23, Bri-Mathias Hodge6,24,25, Martin I Hoffert26, Eric Ingersoll27, Paulina Jaramillo8, Klaus S Lackner28, Katharine J Mach29, Michael Mastrandrea4, Joan Ogden30, Per F Peterson31, Daniel L Sanchez32, Daniel Sperling33, Joseph Stagner34, Jessika E Trancik35,36, Chi-Jen Yang37, Ken Caldeira38.
Abstract
Some energy services and industrial processes-such as long-distance freight transport, air travel, highly reliable electricity, and steel and cement manufacturing-are particularly difficult to provide without adding carbon dioxide (CO2) to the atmosphere. Rapidly growing demand for these services, combined with long lead times for technology development and long lifetimes of energy infrastructure, make decarbonization of these services both essential and urgent. We examine barriers and opportunities associated with these difficult-to-decarbonize services and processes, including possible technological solutions and research and development priorities. A range of existing technologies could meet future demands for these services and processes without net addition of CO2 to the atmosphere, but their use may depend on a combination of cost reductions via research and innovation, as well as coordinated deployment and integration of operations across currently discrete energy industries.Entities:
Year: 2018 PMID： 29954954 DOI： 10.1126/science.aas9793
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728