Influence of Solar Energy Deployment on Long-Range Transport Air Pollution

摘要

An analysis of the effects on ambient sulfur oxides of wide-spread deployment of various solar energy technologies by the year 2000 has been made, using the BNL long-range transport model AIRSOX. The solar energy deployment scenario was based on the Domestic Policy Review (National Energy Plan II), as supplied by the MITRE Corporation as part of the Technology Assessment of Solar Energy (TASE) project. The resulting changes in SO/sub x/ are in general quite modest (< 10%), which is a direct result of the modest changes in SO sub 2 emissions resulting from solar energy use. The changes over time from 1975 to 2000 are in general more important, and imply that a solar energy scenario specifically intended to optimize air quality might result in larger benefits.