Add limit to the use of biochar (via cropland and cement) and clean-up biochar activation switches - #2240
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Purpose of this PR
(1) This PR adds a limit on biochar production from the demand perspective. It is a first approximation. The bound is based on a) 2020 cropland area and the EU CRCF max. application rate suggestion (i.e. constant over time), derived here and b) a share of cement that can be substituted by biochar (building on https://www.nature.com/articles/s44284-024-00069-x).
The bound is only relevant for extreme scenarios with lots of CDR demand, where biochar production can otherwise become a more or less unlimited CDR supply, which cannot be reigned in by the biomass trade mechanism.
It requires inputdata rev 7.74!
(2) Biochar production technologies were activated via two switches (
c_biopyrEstablishedandc_biopyrLiquid). These are now merged intoc_biopyrOptionsin order to reduce the amount of switches.Type of change
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make test) after my final commit and all tests pass (FAIL 0)remind2if and where it was neededforbiddenColumnNamesin readCheckScenarioConfig.R in case the PR leads to deprecated switchesCHANGELOG.mdcorrectly (added, changed, fixed, removed, input data/calibration)Further information (optional)
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