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EROEI only matters if this is your only source of energy. At $500/barrel it would make sense to use solar power for the energy intensive bits. Nothing says yo
by Symmetry 13y ago
EROEI only matters if this is your only source of energy. At $500/barrel it would make sense to use solar power for the energy intensive bits. Nothing says your conversion plant has to run day and night.
- brc 13y agoYou say that like solar power is free. To calculate the EROEI, you have to include the energy from solar.
- Symmetry 13y agoNot free, but much cheaper than $500 for each 1.7 mwh, or barrel of oil. Solar is already cheaper than that even in cloudy Britain. EROEI is sort of irrelevant to the question of whether we'll ever "run out of oil." It might be that we'll stop using oil as a primary energy source, but that doesn't mean it'll go away. EDIT: You might recall that the point you dismissed as "ignorant nonsense" was that we would be able to produce oil at $500/gallon, not that we would use it as a source of energy.