by Graham Palmer | May 23, 2017 | EROI, Technology, Uncategorized
The competitive struggle between technology and resource depletion The study of EROI may be of little more than academic interest except for two factors. Energy extraction has conformed to Ricardo’s ‘best first’ principle, meaning that the easiest resources to extract...
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 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...
by Graham Palmer | Apr 12, 2017 | EROI
Cost-constrained versus EROI-constrained electricity generation One of the challenges for EROI researchers is explaining in simple terms why EROI matters. I’m planning on doing a series of short posts exploring the relevance of EROI. This first post simply makes the...
by Graham Palmer | Mar 22, 2017 | EROI
EROI of the Australian electricity supply industry I recently did a presentation on the EROI of the Australian electricity supply industry. The key aims were – Calculate how much energy it takes to build, run and maintain the Australian electricity supply...
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