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Issues with the electricity column in generate_plant_water_use() #242

Open ssamkl opened 1 month ago

ssamkl commented 1 month ago

The electricity column in generate_plant_water_use() in plant_water_use.py has NaN or the wrong values. The current fix drops the column, which can be seen here: https://github.com/KeyLogicLCA/ElectricityLCI/blob/d174078854980f3a8b1545ce0019003e27bdab93/electricitylci/plant_water_use.py#L236.

Code should be examined further

bkuczenski commented 2 weeks ago

Could this be related to the fact that many electricity processes include ZERO water use but very large nonzero water returns? This means that e.g. Wind electricity has an enormous negative water footprint. one example: https://www.lcacommons.gov/lca-collaboration/Federal_LCA_Commons/US_electricity_baseline/dataset/PROCESS/2f55370f-28cc-372f-82da-dae49d948909

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