Talk:Life cycle assessment
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I think the term "exergy" for the embodied energy is the correct term instead of Emergy.
[edit] Question
Is the same Life Cycle Analysis as Life cycle assesment ?. Specially for biobutanol.Regards.
--Mac 13:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
I have found at least three other article that seem to overlap with this one: life cycle cost analysis, life cycle analysis and life cycle energy analysis. "Life cycle cost analysis" has a mergeto tag pointing at Total cost of ownership, however, the TCO article specifically says that life cycle assessment differs from life cycle assessment. I would like to merge at least "life cycle analysis" and "life cycle energy analysis" content here and create redirects for the other articles that point here. Comments?
--Mwarren us 15:46, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
I would suggest that life cycle energy analysis is a subset of life cycle analysis. Also, in my experience the word analysis is used more often than assessment. Other than that, enjoy!
Patris Magnus 19:49, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
- A current Google vote (Sept 07) results in 1'000'000 hits for 'life cycle assessment' and 700'000 hits for 'life cycle analysis'. To me they are synonyms. I use 'life cycle assessment' (Gabor Doka) --85.0.151.61 15:20, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
- I agree and have acted on the discussion here. Life cycle cost analysis is now a disambiguation page that points to life cycle assessment and whole-life cost, the two subjects which it seemed to cover. OceanKiwi (talk) 16:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
Tprentice (talk) 03:37, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
- "A criticism of LCEA is that it attempts to eliminate monetary cost analysis, that is replace the currency by which economic decisions are made with an energy currency." - Why would this be a criticism? More explanation would be appreciated. Thanks.
[edit] Merge NMVOC?
Merge. NMVOC is only a definition, and should be merged in, too. ENeville 16:16, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
Oppose merge disagree with Patris Magnus, NMVOC (a group of chemical substances) is completely different from LCA (a method to assess the environmental impact of a product or service. See my comment at Talk:NMVOC. Shangri67 11:50, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
Oppose merge. Agree with Shangri67, for the same reason. Also left a more detailed comment at Talk:NMVOC IgorW 10:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
Oppose merge. NMVOC is not a subset of life cycle analysis. Sunray 18:13, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
Given the comments above, and those on Talk:NMVOC, over a span of more than six months, I conclude that the decision is no merge. I will remove the tags. Sunray 18:13, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
