a healthy economy, enabling adequate health care …stimulates a highly trained workforce …requires the workforce to adapt to change through continuous …requires training excessive land use (e.g., urban sprawl) …reduces per capita energy consumption to be reduced …encourages a healthy economy, enabling affordable housing …stimulates co-operation of diverse cultural groups in decision making …requires Societal Sustainability   Percentage (total indicators 16 100%)  Weighted Score (percentage weighting) Focus Question: Does the use of the technology result in greater opportunities for employment, economic growth, increased GDP, and True = 2 optimum locations and scheduling for production? Uncertain = 1 False = 0 Specific Indicators: This technology… full-time employment for the population …supports a higher proportion of the workforce to be paid reasonable …enables wages a relatively low cost per megajoule (MJ) …has Economic development of other industry or opportunity …enables Sustainability the import of energy, contributing positively to the GDP …reduces Weighting = ___ the export of energy, contributing positively to the GDP …enables be used in a variety of locations that are well-suited to industry …can for continuous, around-the-clock production …allows not decrease the availability of natural resources …does Total Economic Sustainability   Percentage indicators 18 100%)  Weighted Score (percentage weighting) Overall for Technology (Ecological + Societal + Economic) Overall Assessment of the Sustainability for this Energy Technology
…stimulates a healthy economy, enabling adequate health care …requires a highly trained workforce …requires the workforce to adapt to change through continuous training …reduces excessive land use (e.g., urban sprawl) …encourages per capita energy consumption to be reduced …stimulates a healthy economy, enabling affordable housing …requires co-operation of diverse cultural groups in decision making Societal Sustainability Percentage (total indicators  16  100%) Weighted Score (percentage  weighting) Economic Sustainability Weighting = ___ Focus Question: Does the use of the technology result in greater opportunities for employment, economic growth, increased GDP, and optimum locations and scheduling for production? Specific Indicators: This technology… True = 2 Uncertain = 1 False = 0 …supports full-time employment for the population …enables a higher proportion of the workforce to be paid reasonable wages …has a relatively low cost per megajoule (MJ) …enables development of other industry or opportunity …reduces the import of energy, contributing positively to the GDP …enables the export of energy, contributing positively to the GDP …can be used in a variety of locations that are well-suited to industry …allows for continuous, around-the-clock production …does not decrease the availability of natural resources Total Economic Sustainability Percentage indicators  18  100%) Weighted Score (percentage  weighting) Overall for Technology (Ecological + Societal + Economic) Overall Assessment of the Sustainability for this Energy Technology
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