Biochar-based bioenergy system is economically viable when life cycle costs and environmental assumptions are accounted for.
The results show that the design option with the highest initial investment (4) is in fact the most viable from a life cycle perspective.
By sequestering dysfunctional organelles, proteins and membranes into double-membrane vesicles called autophagosomes, which later fuse with lysosomes, cells generate energy and remain viable and complete their life cycle (Kimura et al., 2007; Srinivas et al., 2009b; Yang and Klionsky, 2009).
When kept in short-day and low-light conditions, most homozygous p5cs2 mutant plants completed a normal life cycle and produced viable seeds, which enabled us to analyse development of p5cs2 mutant plants in direct comparison to wildtype and p5cs1-4 mutant plants.
Furthermore, the transgenic tobacco plants were able to complete their life cycle and to produce viable seeds while the NT plants died at the vegetative stage.
Fiber Reinforced Polymers are considered to be a viable alternative, due to their relatively easy and quick installation, low life cycle costs and zero maintenance requirements.
A parametric study is used to determine the most viable system/component syntheses/designs based on maximizing total system efficiency or minimizing total system life cycle cost.
Carrying out a life cycle inventory assessment for each bioenergy configuration can be a viable option for non-diffuse bioenergy plants (i.e., low number of bioenergy plants within the region).
Through a life cycle approach, we evaluate whether algal biodiesel production can be a viable fuel source once the energy and carbon intensity of the process are managed accordingly.
Concerning the proportion of viable male-producing clones, a fitness component related to the sexual phase of the life cycle, there were no significant differences between BC clones produced from resident-resident and hybrid-resident crosses.
