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I have a question about the social aspects of the sectors in PSILCA. There are social aspects for each sector. Why do I need all sectors as input for a sector to get a correct result. I thought I only need the social aspects of individual sectors that I select for my system to get a reliable result. I don't understand what the ‘background’ sectors ‘do’. I hope you understand my problem and can help me to get a better understanding. Since my product system can not be calculated (even though I am already using a cut-off of 10E-03), I had to delete the upstream flows (background sectors) and just work with the "first" sectors.

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Hi Marie, the upstram sectors are needed to get life cycle results.

Regarding your "my system cannot be calculated": please check and use the PSILCA libraries that we have put now on Nexus. With this a calculation should be really feasible, and also really fast.

Hth, Andreas
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Yes, your system is only the process itself then (but that is not the idea of a life cycle assessment evidently)
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