We have decided to treat sequestered CO2 from CCS and from direct air capture as energy-related, which is consistent with how energy-related CO2 emissions from the "industry" and "electricity" sectors have long been calculated. (We treat an industrial facility as a sort of black box, and the net CO2 emissions from energy, including the energy used to power the CCS process, that emerge from the box, are the ones we show on the energy-related CO2 graphs. This is probably what a policymaker who is interested in CCS cares about.) Currently, geoengineering sector CO2 reductions are calculated in Vensim (e.g. in Output Energy Related CO2 Emissions by Sector) but aren't shown on the graphs, so WebAppData needs to be updated. It isn't calculated for the version of this graph with reallocated energy carriers, nor the one broken out by fuel type rather than by sector, so that needs some minor Vensim updates.
jrissman
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4 years ago
We have decided to treat sequestered CO2 from CCS and from direct air capture as energy-related, which is consistent with how energy-related CO2 emissions from the "industry" and "electricity" sectors have long been calculated. (We treat an industrial facility as a sort of black box, and the net CO2 emissions from energy, including the energy used to power the CCS process, that emerge from the box, are the ones we show on the energy-related CO2 graphs. This is probably what a policymaker who is interested in CCS cares about.) Currently, geoengineering sector CO2 reductions are calculated in Vensim (e.g. in
Output Energy Related CO2 Emissions by Sector) but aren't shown on the graphs, so WebAppData needs to be updated. It isn't calculated for the version of this graph with reallocated energy carriers, nor the one broken out by fuel type rather than by sector, so that needs some minor Vensim updates.