The cost of direct air capture and storage can be reduced via strategic deployment but is unlikely to fall below stated cost targets

J Young, N McQueen, C Charalambous, S Foteinis… - One Earth, 2023 - cell.com
Carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is necessary to minimize the impact of climate change by
tackling hard-to-abate sectors and historical emissions. Direct air capture and storage …

Deep geothermal energy extraction, a review on environmental hotspots with focus on geo-technical site conditions

S Gkousis, K Welkenhuysen, T Compernolle - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Knowledge about the environmental impacts of geothermal energy is important for
understanding the role this technology could play in the transition towards sustainable …

Is geothermal heating environmentally superior than coal fired heating in China?

R Zhang, G Wang, X Shen, J Wang, X Tan… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2020 - Elsevier
Geothermal energy is considerably encouraged by governments because it offers a low-
carbon renewable option to satisfy the long-term heat demand. However, to date research …

Comparative life cycle assessment of integrated renewable energy-based power systems

M Shamoushaki, SCL Koh - Science of The Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Integrated renewable-based power cycles should be employed to produce more sustainable
electricity. This is a comparative life cycle assessment (LCA) of three combined power …

Geothermal energy in China: Status, challenges, and policy recommendations

Y Wang, Y Liu, J Dou, M Li, M Zeng - Utilities Policy, 2020 - Elsevier
As a clean, renewable energy source with low carbon content, geothermal energy has the
advantages of wide resource availability coverage, low environmental impact, low operating …

Assessing the potential benefits of methane oxidation technologies using a concentration-based framework

S Abernethy, MI Kessler… - Environmental Research …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Lowering the atmospheric methane concentration is critical to reducing short-term global
warming because of methane's high radiative forcing and relatively short lifetime. Methane …

Analysis of economy, thermal efficiency and environmental impact of geothermal heating system based on life cycle assessments

ZH **a, GS Jia, ZD Ma, JW Wang, YP Zhang, LW ** - Applied energy, 2021 - Elsevier
The deep buried coaxial and horizontally-butted borehole heat exchangers are the two
typical wells for geothermal utilization in space heating. The economic indexes, heat …

[HTML][HTML] Towards optimisation of geothermal heat recovery: an example from the West Netherlands Basin

CJL Willems, HM Nick - Applied energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The Netherlands experienced the fastest European expansion of geothermal energy
exploitation in the past decade. The first Dutch geothermal sites proved that Hot …

Geosciences and the energy transition

NJ Gardiner, JJ Roberts, G Johnson… - … Science, Systems and …, 2023 - lyellcollection.org
A substantial and rapid decarbonisation of the global economy is required to limit
anthropogenic climate change to well below 2° C average global heating by 2050. Yet …

Integrated assessment of deep geothermal heating investments in Northern Belgium through techno-economic, life cycle, global sensitivity and real options analysis

S Gkousis, K Welkenhuysen, T Compernolle - Geothermics, 2024 - Elsevier
The decarbonization of the heating sector is crucial for the green transition of the energy mix.
This study investigates threefold the economic and environmental performance of deep …