Titlebook: Energy Return on Investment; A Unifying Principle Charles A.S. Hall Book 2017 The Author(s) 2017 role of energy in the economy.EROI calcula

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EROI and Industrial EconomiesThe concept of EROI was introduced in Chap. 6 and applied there to issues of biology and evolution. But the concept is pervasive, and certainly applies very much to modern industrial economies. The following three chapters introduce the concept, show how it is derived and applies it to the American and world economies.

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Methods and Critiques for EROI Applied to Modern FuelsThis chapter gives the basic methodology for calculating EROI, discusses some controversial or unresolved issues and confronts a number of critiques that have been laid against the technique, both generally and with respect to particular applications.

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Reform Cycles and Reform Strategies,ers have delved more deeply to see that life itself, and all of biology, is essentially about obtaining and using energy. In other words, all of life is about making energy investments to gain more energy with the expectation of continuing their own life and sending genes into the future. To this en

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We start with a brief review of Darwinian evolution, then build on that by first considering another important question in ecology relating to the distribution and abundance of species. I do this through a summary of some of the most important history on this issue.

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Energy Return on Investment978-3-319-47821-0Series ISSN 2195-1284 Series E-ISSN 2195-1292