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Maybe. Cf. every mineral that's mined. Energy expended to extract a resource.
by i_am_proteus 8y ago
Maybe. Cf. every mineral that's mined. Energy expended to extract a resource.
- beat 8y agoNot the same. You don't use up the iron you mine in the mining process. That's what EROEI < 1 is, unless you get the energy input from some other source. And since anything that's in petroleum can be synthesized from simple molecules like water and CO2, given enough energy...