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Metapackage for brightway2 imports and documentation
https://brightway.dev/
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Conceptual inconsistencies with activities/products and exchanges in ecoinvent #7

Closed aleksandra-kim closed 3 years ago

aleksandra-kim commented 8 years ago

Original report by Chris Mutel (Bitbucket: cmutel, GitHub: cmutel).

Current importing does not really make sense - all links are from activities to activities, and flows or reference products are only considered as metadata of an activity. However, a reference product has a different name than an activity, and therefore we can easily get confused writing e.g. exporters.

The current system works, and the calculations are OK, but maybe we want to consider being more explicit or better documenting the current assumptions that more or less disregard product names in exchanges.

cmutel commented 3 years ago

Adding products will come in bw3, this works fine for now.