Breunig et al. (2024): Life cycle impact and cost analysis of quarry materials for land-based enhanced weathering in Northern California
Hanna M. Breunig, Patricia Fox, Jeremy Domen, Ram Kumar, Ricardo Jorge Eloy Alves, Kateryna Zhalnina, Anne Voigtländer, Hang Deng, Bhavna Arora, Peter Nico IN: Journla of Cleaner Production, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.143757
Enhanced weathering (EW) has been demonstrated in laboratory and field tests, but great uncertainty remains regarding the life-cycle of using locally available rocks on candidate soils. The authors evaluate the life-cycle impacts, job creation, and cost of scenarios where fines and rocks mined from quarries in Oregon and Northern California are transported by truck and tilled into agricultural soils.