"As code" philosphy applied to environmental impact analysis
summary
Open-source LCA as code DSL (called LCA as code DSL) encodes life‑cycle rules separately from inventories so the same model runs on different data; a Kotlin SDK, CLI and IntelliJ plugin produce reproducible numbers, unit checks (unit-typed quantities) and CI‑friendly tests. Full expert LCAs take months and databases contain ~20,000 processes, but the tool runs thousands of scenarios, emits contribution diagrams, and is in production at Exoscale; remaining problems are supply‑chain data transparency and provider secrecy.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Environmental impact analysis intro
- 7:45Problems with traditional tools
- 14:22LCA as code design
- 18:18Demo: LCA as code with mail service
- 26:24LCA as code deployment
- 29:11Conclusion
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