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Emissions from Photovoltaic Life Cycles

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Vasilis Fthenakis, Hyung Kim, Erik Alsema
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This study presents the life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions, criteria pollutant emissions and heavy metal emissions from four types of major commercial photovoltaic (PV) systems: multicrystalline silicon, monocrystalline silicon, ribbon silicon and thin-film cadmium telluride.