Energy Returned over Energy Invested: An Orderly Reading List

The principal difficulty in gathering information in a blog is the difficulty in indicating the best order to read the various posts.  That is especially true in the case of this blog which is not intended for continuing daily posts.  For some unexplained reason, the nearly random
order in which the subject is covered bothers me a great deal more than the undeniable fact that almost no one reads any of it.  After all, the popularity is inversely proportional to the importance.  The following is a suggestion for the order in which the posts might be read most profitably:

ASPO Conference Austin, Texas, 2012
On ERoEI as a Measure of Feasibility
ERoEI* as a Measure of Feasibility
Comment on Computing ER and EI
Why We Need the Concept of Emergy
Definition of Emergy
Five Ways to Compute ERoEI
Missing Components of ERoEI
Additional Concerns about Recycling
What Is the Energy Cost of Pollution?
The Fundamental Principle of Ecology
Time Delay and Spacial Separation for ERoEI
Renewable Energy
ERoEI* Redux

The following posts provide the easiest explanation for the shabby treatment this thesis has endured at the hands of those with a vested interest in the status quo.  The truth, however, continues to be the truth.

Why We Need a Planned Economy
Not all planned economies are the same.
Capitalism, Marxism, and Dematerialism
Comment on the Austin ASPO Conference

For the record, here is Jay Hanson’s list of commonly-known false assumptions in neo-liberal economics:

1. People are Bayesian equation solvers (the entire argument for market outcomes rests on this known false assumption).

2. Money is just a medium of exchange (this known false assumption hides the political power of money).

3. Energy is just a commodity (the production function only assumes capital and labor).

4. Debt is neutral to an economy.

5. “Wants” are identical to “needs.”

6. The environment is part of the economy instead of the other way around.

Energy Returned over Energy Invested by Tom Wayburn