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Furnace
Furnace is a Python module that takes in an unstructured scientific unit and structures it. This specification is not complete, and represents only an early idea of what Furnace will represent when complete. Any UI or phrasing is merely to illustrate, and precise UI may change. Later editions may switch from CLI to standalone GUI or web, though it's more likely a different system will call Furnace.
Technical specifications are discussed in the tech spec, below.
Alice has a great number of battery specs scraped she wants to compare, but they're all in different formats-not just units, but in capitalization, phrasing, spacing, and more. This makes simply passing them through traditional unit converters difficult.
Alice sets up a short script to call Furnace on each of these battery specs. Furnace will present her with a numeric value with the unit she asked for, standardized, as well as warn her in cases where it was unable to standardize specifications. If she wants to, she can easily have it presented in a variety of different formats, or simply choose to only output units provided in a specific format. Alice can choose the prefix on each unit in her output, such as Kilowatt Hour (3.6 Mega Joules) or Watt-second (1 Joule).