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What is this about?
Given A CES production function with a set of inputs and outputs we can implement a python based translation into a Linear set of constraints which best approximate the CES function. Inspired by #954
Example Say I have Bike Factory as my technology :
Inputs to bike factory are Carbon, Aluminium, Lithium
Outputs from bike factory are Bikes
Material 1 : is a CES between Carbon and Aluminium
Take a positive elasticity of substitution between Carbon and Aluminium
Now this system can be automatically translated (to a certain precision) into a set of binned technologies with corresponding bounds. This can extend to a nested CES. Mirroring it in reporting we can automatically convert it back into CES form, removing a lot of manual work in hardcoded aggregation maps.