BountifulEnergy

In this post I will address the issue called the "Energy Trap", which was explained well by Tom Murphy on his excellent blog post ...

In this article I will show that ERoEI is unimportant by itself. It usually does not matter if ERoEI is increasing or decreasing. ERoEI pro...

Here is a response I wrote on a forum: I'm sorry, but there's just no science happening here. It's not sufficient to say the ...

The  ERoEI  ratio refers to the amount of energy which we must expend in order to obtain more energy. For example, if we must use one barrel...

Here is a comment I wrote in response to an article. The article was asking whether industrial civilization could be reconstituted from scr...

Peak oilers and energy decline theorists both believed that world trade would rapidly come to an end around 2005. They believed that world t...

One the central claims of the peak oil/energy decline movement, is that renewable sources of power have extremely low ERoEI .  Therefore, i...