Analysis for blog: Questions about Lithos's first ERW credit issuance

These notebooks reproduce the back-of-envelope analysis done to gut-check Lithos's claim of 8.3 tonnes/ha/yr of gross CDR.

• surface-area.ipynb analyzes how much surface area is required to reach the inferred dissolution fraction given a range of dissolution rates.
• export-fluxes.ipynb analyzes the DIC and ALK export required to achieve 8.3 tonnes/ha/yr gros CDR.

Installation

This project uses Pixi for dependency management. Pixi is a fast, cross-platform package manager that handles both Python and system dependencies. The Pixi configuration is defined in pyproject.toml, though we've placed dependencies under [project.dependencies] which should allow you to work with this repository using other package management tools (e.g., pip).

Getting started should be as easy as:

git clone https://github.com/carbonplan/lithos-issuance.git
cd lithos-issuance
pixi install
pixi shell
jupyter notebook

Prerequisites

Install Pixi by following the instructions at https://pixi.sh, or use one of these quick install methods:

# macOS/Linux
curl -fsSL https://pixi.sh/install.sh | bash

# Windows
iwr -useb https://pixi.sh/install.ps1 | iex

License

This code is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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