Re:All poverty is energy poverty
by cinntaile on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:03PM
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EROI is a physical measure, it doesn't deal with price at all so I don't get what it has to do with your first paragraph?
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It is rather an economic measure to my understanding. Lower EROI will tend to raise energy prices. According to the Wikipedia article, it has been argued that falling EROI has been responsible in part for the collapse of the Roman empire. It has also been linked to inflation.
Re:All poverty is energy poverty
by imtringued on Monday September 05, 2022 @09:15PM
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EROI doesn't tell you how much total energy you can extract nor how fast you can extract it, it just tells you how much of the energy you extract is usable.