Correct way to do activity-level LCIA about brightway2 HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi @MaxHalford,

Most computation time is needed for the lci, consequently you should avoid it when you can. If you switch the method, there is no need to call redo_lci. You only need to redo_lci when you change the functional unit.

That being said, if your goal is to get the LCIA scores for all ecoinvent activities, it would be faster to simply download them. Check https://v38.ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/File/Files.

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Hey @BenPortner, thanks for the swift answer.

Most computation time is needed for the lci, consequently you should avoid it when you can. If you switch the method, there is no need to call redo_lci. You only need to redo_lci when you change the functional unit.

Duly noted, that's a good tip.

That being said, if your goal is to get the LCIA scores for all ecoinvent activities, it would be faster to simply download them. Check https://v38.ecoquery.ecoinvent.org/File/Files.

Ahah, silly me. And what's the recommended procedure for loading that data with Brightway2? Are there docs about that somewhere? Or should I just use the same procedure as I did for the activity SPOLD files?

Sorry for the possibly naive questions, I'm very new to this field :)

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Hi @MaxHalford,

The files (ecoinvent 3.8_[system_model]_cumulative_lcia_xlsx.7z) are archives, which contain an Excel file that has activities for rows and methods for columns. The data points are the LCIA scores for the corresponding activity-method pair. Brightway offers no functionality to import these - but I am also not sure why you would need them in Brightway?

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I just found that the xlsx were a pain to work with. I liked that Brightway2 allows reading the spold files, and provides a common interface to different sources.

I'll have another go at the excel files, thanks :)

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