When it comes to life-cycle analysis, Ming Xu and Shelie Miller, two assistant professors at SNRE, aren’t taking the easy way out. Life-cycle analysis (LCA), a tool used to assess the environmental impact of a product or process by following it from “cradle to grave,” is most readily applied to well-established industries with lots of available data, like food and automobiles. However, some of the most needed applications of LCA are evaluations of emerging systems. So Xu and Miller have decided to take on one of the most amorphous systems of all: U.S. bioenergy.
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