One interesting part of this, since the EROI stuff is heavily associated with peak oil doomers as well as anti-renewable cranks, is that the EROI of fossil fuels is slightly increasing by this measure.
This is because the harder to get fossil fuels are being burned in more efficient engines, resulting in more useful work being done for a given energy input to extract them.
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One interesting part of this, since the EROI stuff is heavily associated with peak oil doomers as well as anti-renewable cranks, is that the EROI of fossil fuels is slightly increasing by this measure.
This is because the harder to get fossil fuels are being burned in more efficient engines, resulting in more useful work being done for a given energy input to extract them.