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The seductive effect of identical physical units

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The impacts of emissions such as radiation and noise are of course connected to a certain energy flow but are measured differently.

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Frischknecht, R. The seductive effect of identical physical units. Int. J. LCA 2, 125–126 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02978800

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