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Title: Questions and answers Content: Please take a look at launch questions and answers as well. This page and that need to be merged. h1 Questions about this wiki * Why do we ask for a few words about who you are? h1 Questions about how the tool works * Why doesn't the spreadsheet work in older versions of Microsoft Excel or in other spreadsheet programs such as open office * How can one see the costs sections of the analysis on the webtool? * Could you put links to the underlying trajectories onto the wiki? h1 Questions about the analysis * How is bioenergy treated? * How is shale gas treated? * Why have you included the total cost of vehicles? * I expected altering the level of insulation to make a bigger difference * On the "Energy flows" tab of the webtool, why do you show losses from thermal plants but not from other technologies such as renewables? * You appear to have costs and cost ranges for 2010 and 2050, what are the costs you use for the intervening periods? * Have you used a discount rate What have you used if so? * Why are you using total costs to society rather than tax, subsidy and costs to consumers? * The calculator uses an average CO2 emissions factor for solids, liquids and gas, how did you reach this value? * Is the 2050 Calculator an optimisation model (like MARKAL)? * Where did the space-heating technologies trajectories come from? They're on spreadsheet tab IX.a, C73-S89. They cite reference 1, but that's a reference to Met Office temperature data. * What are the exact numbers in Figure A3 in the 2050 pathways report for the levels of domestic lighting and appliances in 2007; 2010; 2020; 2030 and 2050? * Why does fuel cell technology in motor vehicles use gas? * Why does reducing thermal waste in all domestic buildings by 50% by 2050 have no apparent impact on oil use? * Does the National Grid's pathway make no provision for district heating? * It is very confusing having energy supply from coal and from biomass represented by the same block on chart two * Why are there drastic jumps in zero carbon vehicle units in 2020 and 2025, continuing upwards? * Where did the u-values in the heat sector (IX.a) come from? * Is it really possible to both increase land used for biocrops and increase livestock numbers? * What is pumped heat on the sankey diagram? h1 Questions about copying and adapting the tool * May I copy the tool and adapt it for my country or my purposes? h1 Observations and comments * Mike Childs of Friends of the Earth has some general issues around methodology. * Mike Knowles (Knowlesmichael2), member of IMech, has some comments around the impact of recent government policies on investment costs for renewables. See page: Mike Knowles' comments on investment and government involvement in renewable power generation. You can also read about the 2050 Calculator in the media. User: Tom Bain Picture updated at: Signed off by: Signed off at: |
Title: Questions and answers Content: Please take a look at launch questions and answers as well. This page and that need to be merged. h1 Questions about this wiki * Why do we ask for a few words about who you are? h1 Questions about how the tool works * Why doesn't the spreadsheet work in older versions of Microsoft Excel or in other spreadsheet programs such as open office * How can one see the costs sections of the analysis on the webtool? * Could you put links to the underlying trajectories onto the wiki? h1 Questions about the analysis * How is bioenergy treated? * How is shale gas treated? * Why have you included the total cost of vehicles? * I expected altering the level of insulation to make a bigger difference * On the "Energy flows" tab of the webtool, why do you show losses from thermal plants but not from other technologies such as renewables? * You appear to have costs and cost ranges for 2010 and 2050, what are the costs you use for the intervening periods? * Have you used a discount rate What have you used if so? * Why are you using total costs to society rather than tax, subsidy and costs to consumers? * The calculator uses an average CO2 emissions factor for solids, liquids and gas, how did you reach this value? * Is the 2050 Calculator an optimisation model (like MARKAL)? * Where did the space-heating technologies trajectories come from? They're on spreadsheet tab IX.a, C73-S89. They cite reference 1, but that's a reference to Met Office temperature data. * What are the exact numbers in Figure A3 in the 2050 pathways report for the levels of domestic lighting and appliances in 2007; 2010; 2020; 2030 and 2050? * Why does fuel cell technology in motor vehicles use gas? * Why does reducing thermal waste in all domestic buildings by 50% by 2050 have no apparent impact on oil use? * Does the National Grid's pathway make no provision for district heating? * It is very confusing having energy supply from coal and from biomass represented by the same block on chart two * Why are there drastic jumps in zero carbon vehicle units in 2020 and 2025, continuing upwards? * Where did the u-values in the heat sector (IX.a) come from? * Is it really possible to both increase land used for biocrops and increase livestock numbers? * What is pumped heat on the sankey diagram? h1 Questions about copying and adapting the tool * May I copy the tool and adapt it for my country or my purposes? * How do I adapt the tool and how does it work? h1 Observations and comments * Mike Childs of Friends of the Earth has some general issues around methodology. * Mike Knowles (Knowlesmichael2), member of IMech, has some comments around the impact of recent government policies on investment costs for renewables. See page: Mike Knowles' comments on investment and government involvement in renewable power generation. You can also read about the 2050 Calculator in the media. User: Tom Bain Picture updated at: Signed off by: Signed off at: |