Each diagram plots annual operational energy against embodied energy of the structure, both measured in gigajoules per square meter.
Each diagram shows the influence of (i)–(v) so allowing the conditions for optimum formability to be established.
The dark dots on each diagram indicate a set of optimal choices where the designer can't do better on one objective without doing worse on the other.
Augmenting the diagrams with a reading tree (effectively a partial ordering of quantifiers) ensures that each diagram has a unique semantic interpretation.
The dark dot at the farthest left in each diagram minimizes structural embodied energy regardless of operational energy, while the dark dot at the farthest right minimizes operational energy regardless of embodied energy.
In each diagram, yellow areas are demand met by PV generation, and brown areas are "net demand," that is, remaining demand that must be met by other power plants.
The series of dark dots on each diagram forms the "Pareto front" — the best collection of compromising designs where the designer can't make one performance objective better without making the other one worse.
The E value describes the probability of the match resulting from chance (a lower value corresponds to a lower probability), and the bit score evaluates the combination of alignment quality and length (a higher value corresponds to a better alignment).The y axis of each diagram shows the negative log10 of the P value and the x axis shows the respective parameter value.
However, one of the problems I faced as a GSI was that students were often unable to translate the signs, symbols, and pathways of each diagram, and when students did copy and decipher the diagrams properly their weekly reading responses would often be a mere verbal re-hashing of Burawoy's sketches.
Superimposed on each diagram are predicted metal concentrations, based on published experimental studies.
The dashed line appearing in each diagram represents the lower (reducing) stability limit of H2O.
