by Graham Palmer | Apr 25, 2017 | Silicon Valley
Energy technologies and the Silicon Valley mindset Horace Dediu identified the twin personalities of Google – Google A solves problems of humanity and Google B solves problems for advertisers. Google A is known for their moonshot programs and optimism, Google B...
by Graham Palmer | Apr 22, 2017 | EROI
A Framework for Incorporating EROI into Electrical Storage The fundamental problem with a transition to renewable energy is that modern society has been structured around demand-based power flows. Any quantity of power is available at any time – the only limit...
by Graham Palmer | Apr 21, 2017 | Oil
Leif Wenar- Blood Oil From 1807, Britain tried to suppress the Atlantic slave trade until eventual success its 1867. In the late eighteenth century nearly everyone of influence or power in Britain had a direct or indirect interest in the slave trade. In 1805–1806 the...
by Graham Palmer | Apr 14, 2017 | Maximum power principle
The Maximum Power Principle Lotka and Odum In 1922, Lotka proposed a ‘law of maximum energy’ for biological systems. He reasoned that what was most important to the survival of an organism was a large energetic output in the form of growth, reproduction, and...
by Graham Palmer | Apr 13, 2017 | EROI
The EROI energy multiplier hypothesis A common narrative in EROI discourse is the energy multiplier hypothesis. The reasoning is that it doesn’t matter what the EROI is, providing it’s greater than unity. From this reasoning, it follows that even very low EROI’s (say...
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