Charlie Hall’s EROI on the Web part 2 of 5

This is the second of a five part series on net energy research resulting from Professor Charles Hall of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and his students during last semesters “EROI Sweatshop”. While it is still in draft form, it is hoped (with some help from TOD readers) to be refined and directed into the formal peer review literature. But Professor Hall (and I) believe this type of thinking also needs to be considered outside the academy, and increasing the level of energy discourse in our nation is one reason for him choosing to display his draft essays on theoildrum.com.

This installment highlights 3 sections of the larger compilation: 1) a provisional summary table of updated (or as updated as we have) EROI figures for various fuels, 2) an insightful (but very counterintuitive – I had to read it twice) analysis on the EROI of imported oil from the perspective of the importing country, and 3) an analysis on the EROI of natural gas. If you would like to ‘improve on the silence’ in the comment section to help Dr. Hall and his students advance the biophysical Rubik’s cube that is EROEI analysis, please do so. Next Tuesday will be the Appendix on the EROI of Nuclear.

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