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Energy Policy Simulator - United States
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Add electrolyzed water (for hydrogen production) as a new data series to existing stacked area graph of water use by power plants #289

Open jrissman opened 11 months ago

jrissman commented 11 months ago

The EPS already has a stacked area graph of water consumption by power plant type. Consider adding a new data series (stacked area) to this graph indicating the amount of water consumed by electrolyzers to produce green hydrogen.

mass of green hydrogen -> moles of green hydrogen 1 mole of hydrogen -> 1 mole of water (2 hydrogen atoms in each molecule) moles of water -> mass of water

It should be a simple math operation using universal physical constants that won't vary by region and can probably be hard-coded rather than taken in from CSV files.

[Suggested by Mike Mastrandrea (Stanford) on 12/20/23]