BountifulEnergy

Debunks the arguments of energy decline theorists, peak oil doomers, and others. Argues that energy is abundant.

Sunday, October 21, 2018

Prieto's and Hall's Estimate of Solar EROI Is Very Outdated

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Pedro Prieto and Charles Hall published a book a few years back entitled Spain's Photovoltaic Revolution . In that book they claim that ...
Friday, October 19, 2018

Reports of Low EROI for Solar Power Are Outdated

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A common claim within the energy decline movement is that renewables have much lower EROI than fossil fuels. For example, it is often claime...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Hubbert Curves Would Never Have Worked

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Everyone who followed the peak oil story is familiar with Hubbert curves. A Hubbert curve is a bell-shaped curve which is claimed to represe...
Friday, September 21, 2018

Extended EROI

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Introduction Some EROI authors have suggested that renewable sources of energy have much lower EROI ratios than generally believed. The re...
Wednesday, September 5, 2018

The Effect of Declining EROI on Industralized Countries

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In the previous article, it was shown that any country can increase its energy supply exponentially with any EROI higher than 1. For example...
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Monday, September 3, 2018

EROI and economic growth

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Introduction A great deal of literature has been devoted to calculating the EROI of various energy sources. However, little explanation...
Thursday, October 19, 2017

Bardi's Universal Mining Machine

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Introduction A number of years ago, Dr Ugo Bardi published a very thought-provoking essay about the possibility of a universal mining m...
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