Re: Geothermal Empire
Posted: Wed 03 Feb 2016, 14:09:59
"By our calculations the ERoEI of geothermal power is now at least as good as petroleum; which is now 8.7 :1." Unfortunately there is no EROEI of "geothermal" just as there is no EROEI of "oil wells".
Fortunately, a hundred and fifty years of Thermodynamic investigation says you are dead wrong. If you haven't heard about it yet, you are running a little late. Ignorance is no excuse for avoiding the law; in this case, the Laws of Physics.
We have even plotted the correlated between the ERoEI of petroleum (API 37.5° in this case) to its price over the last half century.
http://www.thehillsgroup.org/depletion2_009.htm
Your comment reminds me of the aborigine who believes that airplanes fly because the gods wish it to be so. Bernoulli was a wizard that used powerful incantations.
Fortunately, a hundred and fifty years of Thermodynamic investigation says you are dead wrong. If you haven't heard about it yet, you are running a little late. Ignorance is no excuse for avoiding the law; in this case, the Laws of Physics.
We have even plotted the correlated between the ERoEI of petroleum (API 37.5° in this case) to its price over the last half century.
http://www.thehillsgroup.org/depletion2_009.htm
Your comment reminds me of the aborigine who believes that airplanes fly because the gods wish it to be so. Bernoulli was a wizard that used powerful incantations.