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The social licence of coal

by | Jan 22, 2017 | Coal

The social licence of coal I’m (just) old enough to remember the Australian nuclear disarmament (and associated opposition to nuclear power) rallies from the 1970s, the fervent opposition to the Newport gas-fired power plant in Melbourne, Tasmanian dams protests of...

Ferroni and Hopkirk revisited

by | Jan 14, 2017 | EROI

Ferroni and Hopkirk revisited Ferroni and Hopkirk published a paper last year titled ‘Energy Return on Energy Invested (ERoEI) for photovoltaic solar systems in regions of moderate insolation’. They concluded that the EROI of solar PV in Switzerland was below 1:1, or...