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EROEI of electricity generation | oCoCarbon
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Do not covet your ideas. EROEI of electricity generation. May 19, 2010. See also The EROEI of energy balancing. I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about EROEI (energy return on energy investment) lately since Tim Helweg-Larsen at PIRC. Asked me for help with a report. The report, “The Offshore Valuation”. Was produced by the Offshore Valuation Group chaired by PIRC and it looks at the value to the UK of the offshore renewable energy resource. The abstract for the study we delivered is below. What&...
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Eppy – EnergyPlus scripting with Python | oCoCarbon
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Do not covet your ideas. Eppy – EnergyPlus scripting with Python. April 18, 2014. It’s a long time since there was any new content here, but this is fantastic and well worth a post. Having spent more hours than I care to imagine wading through EnergyPlus IDF files and writing custom Python scripts to do specific tasks. The work that has gone into writing Eppy. From the project’s tutorial page. Make a large number of changes in an idf file with a few lines of eppy code. Make changes to multiple idf files.
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Reports and papers | oCoCarbon
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Do not covet your ideas. This is a page of links to a number of exciting and interesting reports and papers we’ve been involved with over the past few years. 8220;Parametric models for predicting life cycle energy, cost, and carbon implications of refurbishment in schools and offices”. 8211; CIBSE Technical Symposium – Liverpool (2013). 8220;Lightweight backfill materials in integral bridge construction”. 8211; Atkins (2012). 8211; Graduate School for the Environment (2011). For the latest update of zero...
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Weather file finder | oCoCarbon
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Do not covet your ideas. October 3, 2012. This tool was updated to v1.02 on 2/11/2012 *. Ever had the problem of looking at all the weather files available from the EnergyPlus weather files site. And wondering which is closest to the location you’re modelling in? The oCo Carbon Weather file finder. Each white dot on the map is the location of a weather file. You can see how hard it can be to pick the nearest one if you don’t happen to know the name of your local weather stations. The weather file finder ...
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October | 2014 | oCoCarbon
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Do not covet your ideas. Monthly Archives: October 2014. Dockerfile and EnergyPlus syntax highlighting. October 27, 2014. Docker containers are a way of running a number of isolated processes on a Linux system. For example EnergyPlus, as in this Dockerfile. You can give it a try using the online tutorial on the Docker site. I was surprised not to be able to find a Notepad syntax highlighter for Dockerfiles. So having recently […]. Continuous integration – a step into DevOps. 2D histograms in Excel.
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Improved Excel interface for Google Geocoding API | oCoCarbon
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Do not covet your ideas. Improved Excel interface for Google Geocoding API. October 30, 2012. One quite popular post on this site is the Geocoding for Excel. Post In common with lots of the code snippets here, the code was stripped down to the bare minimum to make it understandable and functional. I happened to be debugging a recent tool (the EPW weather file finder. Returns 51.5073346,-0.1276831. G LATLNG("Trafalgar Square",1). Also returns 51.5073346,-0.1276831. G LATLNG("Trafalgar Square",2). N = 3: R...
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Times and time zones in Excel – now with added Google | oCoCarbon
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Do not covet your ideas. Times and time zones in Excel – now with added Google. November 19, 2012. Max, a visitor here, recently left a comment asking about accessing the public transit travel time option in the Google Directions API. Up until then I hadn’t used it and assumed it worked the same as the walking and driving time options. But that turned out not to be the case. Converts a date in Excel'. Function UnixEpochToExcelSerial(UnixEpochTime As Double) ' Converts seconds since midnight 1/1/1970 to a...
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A Google Maps journey time function for Excel | oCoCarbon
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Do not covet your ideas. A Google Maps journey time function for Excel. May 17, 2012. I had a comment. From Gabriel on the Google Distance post. Asking if it could be adapted. After a bit of back-and-forth by email with Google Translate as an intermediary (Gabriel is Brazilian and my live-in translator/interpreter/girlfriend. Is in Brazil too. So she couldn’t help), I figured out that what Gabriel wanted was to return the time taken rather than the distance. The first one is to change. Check and clean in...
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oCoCarbon | do not covet your ideas
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Do not covet your ideas. Weather data download page. Convert data to metric system? Go to the Weather Underground map page. To find a weather station ID. Click on the map symbols and they will pop up an information box. The weather station ID is in the top left of the pop-up. Make a note of it, come back to this page and enter it into the form. Enter a start date. This is based on ISO-compliant date codes so it is in the format YYYY-MM-DD. Open up your CSV file and start working with the data! This is a ...