Weekly update 44

The optimizations for my third chapter are finally done, again! They finished some time earlier this week and I've been analyzing them the entire week. As it turns out, there's still a lot to do. But one interesting change from the previous round of results is this:

Before

After

Ignore the blue line. The interesting part is that the red line, which shows overall how much you'd need to spend to reduce impacts by a certain amount across a bunch of sites in Pennsylvania (each grey line is one site), goes way further out and it's a lot cheaper than my previous results indicated.

Why?

Indeed!