AdamB » Sun 20 Sep 2020, 13:53:59
TomWayburn wrote:You answered: Any metric that accounts for all energy inputs into a system/process/economy CAN T have an EROEI=>1 because the 2nd Law doesn t allow you.
That sounds like a deliberately argumentative statement. You could have said, Oh, he means it figuratively. What is he getting at? In classical (toxic) economics, the whole economy is the dog and energy is the tail; but, energy is the dog.
So a statement based in the laws of thermodynamics, as to what you can and cannot do with an energy metric of this type, is argumentative?
Can we agree that my take on the eroei metric is correct, in that if a full accounting of the energy in, and energy out, is done, the ratio cannot be equal to or greater than 1? ....