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Tag Archives: EROI
Energy Products: Return on Investment is Already Too Low
My major point when I gave my talk at the Fifth Biophysical Economics Conference at the University of Vermont was that our economy’s overall energy return on investment is already too low to maintain the economic system we are accustomed … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications
Tagged economic growth, energy return, EROEI, EROI, falling wages
242 Comments
Is it really possible to decouple GDP Growth from Energy Growth?
In recent years, we have heard statements indicating that it is possible to decouple GDP growth from energy growth. I have been looking at the relationship between world GDP and world energy use and am becoming increasingly skeptical that such … Continue reading
Posted in Energy policy, Financial Implications
Tagged decouple, EROI, GDP growth, Kyoto Protocol
48 Comments
Will the decline in world oil supply be fast or slow?
I wrote a post last week called Steep oil decline or slow oil decline? Since writing it, I had some additional thoughts on the subject, on reasons to expect a steep decline rather than a slow decline. Furthermore, my article What’s behind … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications, Oil and Its Future
Tagged EROEI, EROI, M. King Hubbert, oil demand, peak oil
37 Comments
Steep oil decline or slow oil decline?
Someone wrote asking the following question: Dear Gail, I have been reading quite a bit about peak oil recently. I get the impression (not based on data) that at some point there will be a quite steep decline in oil … Continue reading
Posted in Financial Implications, Oil and Its Future
Tagged EROEI, EROI, fossil fuels, Hubbert, Hubbert Curve, Liebig's Law of the Minimum
25 Comments
If Oil Supply Declines Quickly, How do We Deal with It?
We don’t know precisely how oil supply will work out, but if it declines quickly, we need to think about how we can deal with such an outcome. A quick decline could come if some combination of events starts oil … Continue reading
