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Bowtied Farmer's avatar

I agree with your take on climate change. Please put out some information on Twitter with your climate change views so I can shRe it

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It would be nice to know the reasoning and or sources behind those EROI estimates. I'm aware different analysts come up with different figures from including or not including some costs, but traditional nuclear power doesn't come out that well (50?!), and I'm not aware of anyone having enough data to know what the newer nuclear designs would come out to be in EROI terms. The EROI of oil has also fallen over time. Some suspect that it between 10 and 18 now.

We should also keep in mind that there are two sides to the coin: EROI (production-side) and energy efficiency of use (consumption-side). We can compensate somewhat for falling EROI through the use of more energy-efficient devices (e.g., EnergyStar appliances, higher miles-per-gallon ICE vehicles versus lower miles-per-gallon ICE vehicles, better house insulation, etc.).

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