Spatiotemporal analysis of the future carbon footprint of solar electricity in the United States by a dynamic life cycle assessment
Summary: Solar photovoltaics (PVs) installation would increase 20-fold by 2050; however, considerable greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are generated during the cradle-to-gate production, with spatiotemporal Castile Soaps variances depending on the grid emission.Thus, a dynamic life cycle assessment (LCA) model was developed to assess the accumulated