Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil
by i_am_proteus on Monday April 08, 2019 @11:57AM
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Maybe. Cf. every mineral that's mined. Energy expended to extract a resource.
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Re:Norway Is Walking Away from Billions of Barrels of Oil
by beat on Monday April 08, 2019 @02:50PM
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Not 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...