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Sustainability Choices when Cooking Pasta
Everyday activities requiring electrical or thermal power imply sustainability decisions. Choices for different energy sources, which equipment to use, and the timing of activities have major implications for CO 2 emissions. Being aware of each of them and accounting for their impact is nearly impossible. First, it is unclear how to assess the sustainability footprint of a decision; second, the complexity of the implications of all such decisions is overwhelming. To make things more concrete, we consider a simple as well as common task: cooking a dish of pasta. We measure the sustainability of the decisions involved in terms of CO 2 emissions and we use historical data of German CO 2 -emission intensity calculated with both the average method and the marginal one. We find that starting from hot or cold tap water can imply up to 35% difference in emissions, depending on the timing and the chosen equipment. However, the complexity and size of information involved in such sustainability choices require the adoption of digitalized and automated systems, which, in turn, raises questions about user acceptability and (mis)trust in such technologies.
Sustainability Choices when Cooking Pasta
Everyday activities requiring electrical or thermal power imply sustainability decisions. Choices for different energy sources, which equipment to use, and the timing of activities have major implications for CO 2 emissions. Being aware of each of them and accounting for their impact is nearly impossible. First, it is unclear how to assess the sustainability footprint of a decision; second, the complexity of the implications of all such decisions is overwhelming. To make things more concrete, we consider a simple as well as common task: cooking a dish of pasta. We measure the sustainability of the decisions involved in terms of CO 2 emissions and we use historical data of German CO 2 -emission intensity calculated with both the average method and the marginal one. We find that starting from hot or cold tap water can imply up to 35% difference in emissions, depending on the timing and the chosen equipment. However, the complexity and size of information involved in such sustainability choices require the adoption of digitalized and automated systems, which, in turn, raises questions about user acceptability and (mis)trust in such technologies.
Sustainability Choices when Cooking Pasta
Fiorini, Laura (author) / Steg, Linda (author) / Aiello, Marco (author)
2020-06-12
Fiorini , L , Steg , L & Aiello , M 2020 , ' Sustainability Choices when Cooking Pasta ' , Paper presented at The Eleventh ACM International Conference on Future Energy Systems (ACM e-Energy) , Melbourne , Australia , 22/06/2020 - 26/06/2020 pp. 161-166 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3396851.3397698
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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690
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