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| | PROFORM: Assessing Energy and Environmental Impacts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | ProForm, a free spreadsheet program developed by researchers in Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Environmental Energy Technologies Division (EETD), has been answering these questions for users all over the world since 2000, and its developers have just released a new, easier-to-use Version 4.0. |
 | | ProForm’s development was funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S. Agency for International Development, and the program now has more than 1,000 registered users in 60 countries. |
 | | ProForm has been used to calculate financial returns and greenhouse-gas emissions savings from micro-hydro projects in Guatemala, photovoltaic installation programs in South Africa, and wind farms in Mongolia, among many other examples. |
| eetd.lbl.gov /newsletter/nl20/proform.htm (601 words) |
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