Tag Archives: EROI

How much oil will be recoverable?

Posted on February 28, 2011 by Gail Tverberg

This is a post of mine that is in the ASPO-USA newsletter today. The world holds a huge amount of oil resources. Besides liquid oil, there is very heavy oil in various forms. There is also liquid oil trapped in … Continue reading →

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WSJ, Financial Times Raise Issue of Oil Prices Causing Recession

Posted on February 25, 2011 by Gail Tverberg

The idea that high oil prices cause recessions shouldn’t be any surprise those who have been following my writings, or those of Dave Murphy, or those of Jeff Rubin. Yesterday, though, the Wall Street Journal finally decided that to mention … Continue reading →

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What are the problems with using corn ethanol for fuel?

Posted on January 10, 2011 by Gail Tverberg

Brian Westenhaus, over at New Energy and Fuel, has been telling me what a good product corn ethanol is. He is very familiar with raising corn for ethanol, and can see how the process has been improved in recent years. … Continue reading →

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Adjusting Energy Return on Investment (EROI) for Time

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Gail Tverberg

Nate Hagens wrote a post at The Oil Drum called Applying Time to Energy Analysis. Under standard EROI analyses, there is no recognition of time – if you cut down a tree, but couldn’t burn it for energy until 50 … Continue reading →

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