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Telling the Truth About Our Future
Telling the Truth About Our Future Renewable energy is a poor substitute for fossil fuels. That’s because renewables are a diffuse form of energy and produce power only about one-third of the time. That doesn’t stop renewable energy true-believers from trying to bend the laws of physics to tell a story that’s not true. EROI** (energy […]
Corn for ethanol & soy for biodiesel tremendously destructive
Corn for ethanol & soy for biodiesel tremendously destructive The Green Gold Rush to make biodiesel has begun in earnest in California. It would not be profitable without subsidies from LCFS credits, federal RIN D5 credits, and Blenders Tax Credits at $3.32 a gallon, which is enough to cover production costs, according to Van der […]
Fossil Fuel Companies Received $5.9T in Subsidies Worldwide
Fossil Fuel Companies Received $5.9T in Subsidies Worldwide Fossil fuel subsidies shield us from the real price at the pump Oil Refinery at Night 2020 was a banner year for fossil fuel subsidies worldwide propping up the world’s oil companies with $5.9T in subsidies according to the International Monetary Fund. Conservative estimates put US subsidies to oil companies […]
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
5 Signs a Civilization is About to Fail
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, Europe must prepare for life after oil
In the wake of the COVID-19 crisis, Europe must prepare for life after oil For the first time in history, in the wake of the corona crisis, US oil prices have gone negative thanks to record lows in global oil demand. This pandemic has revealed deep-seated structural vulnerabilities in our fossil fuel-dependent economy. The most […]
THE ENERGY DISASTER KICKING INTO FULL GEAR: World Is Totally Unprepared For What’s Ahead
THE ENERGY DISASTER KICKING INTO FULL GEAR: World Is Totally Unprepared For What’s Ahead There’s more evidence finally surfacing in the media of the dire energy predicament the world is now facing. The negative ramifications of peak oil and the falling EROI were going to hit the world economy within the next 2-5 years, but […]
Energy Return on Investment (EROI).
Energy Return on Investment (EROI). This is the text of a book review that I wrote, and which has just been published online in the journal Science Progress. Energy Return on Investment: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics and Sustainability. CHARLES A. S. HALL, Springer 2017 ISBN 9783319478203; xii + 174 pp; £37.99 The preeminent mathematical […]
The real Energy Return of Crude Oil: smaller than you would have imagined
The real Energy Return of Crude Oil: smaller than you would have imagined A simple but important study by Luciano Celi shows what is the real energy return that oil companies manage to attain. Much smaller than you would have believed, in several cases it is today well below 10. Which means that renewable energies […]
Something about the Oil companies’ EROI
Something about the Oil companies’ EROI Researchers involved in the energy sector know very well what the EROI (acronym of Energy Return on Investment) is and how frequently is cited in scientific publications, in spite of differences of definition among researchers. Well aware of the fact that we arrived last in the middle of a […]
Book Review: Energy Return on Investment by Charles A. S. Hall
Book Review: Energy Return on Investment by Charles A. S. Hall ENERGY RETURN ON INVESTMENT: A Unifying Principle for Biology, Economics, and Sustainability In Energy Return on Investment, systems ecologist Charles A. S. Hall argues that to truly understand most investments, one must view them in terms of energy. This is perhaps most obvious when considering […]
Inside the new economic science of capitalism’s slow-burn energy collapse
Inside the new economic science of capitalism’s slow-burn energy collapse And why the struggle for a new economic paradigm is about to get real Source: art by Isaac Cordal New scientific research is quietly rewriting the fundamentals of economics. The new economic science shows decisively that the age of endlessly growing industrial capitalism, premised on abundant fossil fuel […]
Charlie Hall speaks about EROI (and many other things)
Charlie Hall speaks about EROI (and many other things) A talk given by professor Charlie Hall in Princeton, last year. More than one hour of presentation to show how rich and interesting is the field of biophysical economics. And here is a comment submitted by Bepi Cima Waiting for a more affordable digital version of Charles […]
