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InfluxDB
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You need to know how energy models work, and I invite you to read about them. Check out PyPSA for instance (paper, Source code)). That would answer both points above and more. For instance, you need to know that they are based on real weather and consumption data, so they account for natural variability. They know the cost of producing synfuels, and they optimize around it to find the cheapest system overall given the input technologies and assumptions. These calculations would be impossible to do by hand.
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