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Eroi is a red herring. The question should be energy returned on manual labor.
by choeger 7y ago
Eroi is a red herring. The question should be energy returned on manual labor.
- TeMPOraL 7y agoHow is EROI a red herring? Energy returned on manual labor may be interesting wrt. profitability, but EROI is literally whether there's any sense of doing it in the first place.
- choeger 7y agoThe thing is: if you can output (through highly automated processes) a device that yields even just 1% more energy than it required in production over its lifetime, you have the opportunity for an exponential growth in energy production at your hands. Higher EROI might indicate a steeper growth, but you can achieve the same by just scaling up production.