Connecting carrier of one tech to resource of another about calliope HOT 4 CLOSED

This functionality could directly relate to issue #6 as energy export is a function of the energy produced by the relevant technologies. In this case, the secondary technology is simply the grid which gives you money instead of another type of energy.

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Don't we already allow that though? I guess the implicit terminology right now is: resources come from outside the model, and carriers are within the model. So a generation technology turns a resource into a carrier, say heat, and a conversion technology could consume the heat and output cooling.

What parts of the puzzle are currently missing? Explicitly specifying the losses bringing heat from the production to the conversion technology, if they are in the same location?

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Yes, having played around with it, the basic functionality is there. The nomenclature is a little confusing, as you would think of a chiller plant as a supply rather than conversion system (or perhaps more rightly, they are all conversion systems!). Perhaps simplicity could be provided if rather than conversion there is just the option to define r as the output of another technology for supply. This issue links to some extent with issues #8 and #10 as it could mean the defining of a fuel type for each supply technology, for some of those fuel types this would be what is currently defined as source_carrier, but all rolled into a newly defined resource.

RE losses on bringing heat to the conversion technology, that can be dealt with by creating a dummy location to which the heat needs to be sent via transmission line before it is returned to the conversion technology (with an intermediary conversion technology at the dummy location turning waste_heat into recovered_heat). It's messy, but works for now.

I'd make this a low priority problem, moving concurrently with issue #10: more on clarity of YAML file than functionality of program.

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Functionality exists for this, and expected updates for version 0.5.0 will overcome the need to create dummy technologies. In providing a conversion_plus tech, there will be the functionality to describe the multiple possible inputs and outputs (and how they interact with each other) for a single conversion technology.

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