Alternative electric generation impact simulator

The potential for, and significance of, uncertainty in the energy technology assessment process was explored. Technology assessments primarily from a methodological viewpoint. A general ideal methodology is developed and the potentials for incorporating uncertainties are described. The implementation of an ideal assessment methodology resulted in the coding of a simulator that should be viewed as a framework for assembling and manipulating information about the economics, emissions, ambient concentrations, and potential health impacts of different types and configurations of electric power generating facilities. The framework is probabilistic, and thus results in several measures of the range of various consequences, in other words a graphic display of the quality of the various predictions. The simulator is structured so that it is easy to improve the sophistication of certain manipulations, or to replace generic data, or update or add new data.