pik-piam / remind2

The remind2 package contains the REMIND-specific routines for data and model output manipulation.
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average LCO for carbon capture and cdr technologies #540

Closed tabeado closed 4 months ago

tabeado commented 6 months ago

Cost per tCO2:

Smaller changes:

Levelized Cost of Enhanced Weathering Enhanced Weathering differs from other technologies as the period when cost are incurred for the performance of the technology is not the period when (all) of the removal is realized. I.e. the cost that are calculated according to the existing protocol are the cost of spreading the rock in t, which initiates removal in t, t+1 etc. at a declining rate. We can thus not simply divide by the removals from EW in t (reported by vm_emiCdrTeDetail) analogous to the other technologies.

There are then two ways of assigning cost of EW to removal: (1) the cost of removal initiated in the period: the cost of spreading are divided by the aggregated removal "initiated" thereby (i.e. the amount of rock spread * s33_co2_rem_pot). Note:

(2) the cost of the removal realized in the period through weathering of the rocks on the field: The thinking & calculation process is analogous to the general investment cost annuitization & distribution. This is currently not implemented.

For documentation purpose, here an attempt to depict the overall logic: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rMF-2TYvcULhBswGiRjHRymhO2tNFhgX/view?usp=sharing

tabeado commented 6 months ago

test results are here: /p/tmp/tabeado/remind2_clean/reportLCOE_enhancedWeathering

tabeado commented 5 months ago

@amerfort and @katarkow , could you have a look at the CDR-part please?