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> Now, to answer your question, if you decide to start a big research program to increase the availability of energy, you should almost certainly focus on the h
by beefield 10y ago
> Now, to answer your question, if you decide to start a big research program to increase the availability of energy, you should almost certainly focus on the high EROEI source
You probably did not mean it this way, but that would mean that almost certainly no-one should have researched solar power until maybe 10-20 years ago.
To me, if you are talking about research, EROEI should be part of the feasibility ROI calculations (obviously), but nothing more.
- marcosdumay 10y agoAt 10-20 years ago solar already had good EROEI, and oil already didn't have a great one either. But it would mean that studying solar some 30-40 year ago was a bad idea. Fossil fuels were too good, and solar didn't look any well by that time. But solar had some other characteristics that made it unparalleled at some niches (like satellites), and guess what, that's exactly what people were interesting on researching by that time.