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A specification that describes how to calculate a carbon intensity for software applications.
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Location-Based Marginal Carbon Intensity Measurement (I): needs justification, and improved clarity and phrasing #150

Closed dschien closed 2 years ago

dschien commented 2 years ago

The section includes undefined terminology "regional balancing authority", "marginal power plant", "schedule some compute".

I disagree with the statement "From a developer perspective, only the location-based info is important for having an impact on reducing carbon emissions." - a persistent reduction of electricity consumption attributable to a specific functional unit of software will contribute to a reduction of electricity use over a longer time, independent from the marginal effect.