Global Warming Potential And Energy Consumption

A reduction of the energy consumption per capita to less than 20 000 kwh per year as a global warming solution is a challenge for all industrialised countries see chart above.

Global warming potential and energy consumption.

Global energy consumption is dramatically increasing due to our quest for a higher standard of living and the increasing world population. Specifically it is a measure of how much energy the emissions of 1 ton of a gas will absorb over a given period of time relative to the emissions of 1 ton of carbon dioxide co 2. The global warming potential gwp was developed to allow comparisons of the global warming impacts of different gases. Energy and gwp results are presented per functional unit which allows us to avoid the allocation of environmental burdens among specific waste fractions or refined products.

To develop global sustainable strategies there is a need. Factors such as occupancy per household and floor area of a single family residence can contribute to greater energy consumption and ghg emissions per capita. Most of our energy comes from fossil fuels and burning these fuels causes environmental problems and in particular the global warming problem. The impacts of interest are total energy consumption and gwp.

However the use of thermal insulation in the modern building walls helps to reduce the energy consumption for space heating and consequently to reduce the global warming potential. Carbon dioxide emissions from other anthropogenic sources and activities were about 7 of. Some gases like methane have large gwp since a ton of methane absorbs much more heat than a ton of co 2. Basically there are two potential ways to achieve this goal.

Energy efficiency and global warming potential in the residential sector. Based on the importance and globally most concern on environmental impacts particularly in the building sector two environmental impact categories including global warming potential gwp and non renewable energy consumption were included in this study. In 2018 carbon dioxide co2 emissions from fossil fuel combustion burning for energy were equal to about 75 of total u s. Fossil fuels coal petroleum and natural gas are our main sources of energy producing the vast majority of fuel electricity and heat used by people across the globe.

To assess energy consumption we used cumulative energy demand ced hirst 1974 which accounts for all. Anthropogenic ghg emissions based on 100 year global warming potential and about 93 of total u s. Energy and global warming. Making matters worse coal mining produces methane a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential 25 times greater than that of co 2.