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| Project: | Carbon Account |
| Version: | 4.7.x-0.2 |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | normal |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
Issue Summary
The list of carbon sources will get very long on an international site. Therefore I suggest to introduce "my carbon sources", which could be a subset of the carbon sources. Alternatively, it might be helpful if a user can add carbon sources, which would be available just for himself.
This way a user could reduce the long list to say 5 - 10 carbon sources which are applicable for his / her specific situation.
The correct calculation of CO2 will be quite tricky for electricity. In our country, each village can have a different combination of sources. E.g. in my case electricity is based 75% on water, 20% on waste and 5% is imported (probably nuclear). 40 km from us, the mix can be 65% water, 35% nuclear. To make it even more complex, as a customer you can decide to pay more for the electrical energy and get cleaner energy. You can do this in general or e.g. just buy 500 kWh on solar energy, etc.
If you want to implement the above, a user needs to do some preparation work until he/she can start to store carbon stamps. I do not have any experience with users entering carbon footprints, so I cannot say whether the preparation work would people prevent from entering information at all. On the other hand if you pay more for the (cleaner) electricity, you probably want to see an effect in your carbon footprint.
Maybe others can comment on this, too?
Juerg
Comments
#1
This is great feedback. Many thanks. On the issue of selecting carbon sources, i don't expect users to do this more than once for each source. I would expect them to simply edit their footprint and add new trips (under say the title 'My Travel'), new meter readings (under say the title 'My home') to the existing footprint, But I hear what you are saying so I will think about that can be done.
Note that you would NOT normally enable multiple models and they be specifically enabled under 'settings'.
We have had discussons about electricity within the carbon rationing groups. I think different groups are taking a different view at the moment. But we don't have the same variations as you.
#2
What I am proposing to do is to add a field to carbon_source which would allow a carbon_source to be 'private', 'shared with my group' or 'public' (used by anyone). Public won't be offered to users that don't have 'admin carbon node' role.