I’ve also tried to follow three links from the Wikipedia on EROEI for solar panel and couldn’t find anything accessible. You don’t happen to have a link handy for the calculations and underlying assumptions?
What he’s talking about here is a little different than energy cannibalism but they are definitely related. Energy cannibalism occurs due to rapid growth. The observation here is that the problem of this nature occurs even with slow growth of the solar, wind and nuclear.
Not off the top of my head. Heinberg’s “Searching for a Miracle: ‘Net Energy’ Limits and the Fate of Industrial Society” has some calculations and references- he gets a slightly more pessimistic numbers but still well over 1 for both photovoltaic solar and wind question. I’d also point to this source. There’s disagreement over what the EROEI of most of these is, but there’s no serious argument that they aren’t greater than 1.
Is this then what you are talking about?
I’ve also tried to follow three links from the Wikipedia on EROEI for solar panel and couldn’t find anything accessible. You don’t happen to have a link handy for the calculations and underlying assumptions?
What he’s talking about here is a little different than energy cannibalism but they are definitely related. Energy cannibalism occurs due to rapid growth. The observation here is that the problem of this nature occurs even with slow growth of the solar, wind and nuclear.
Not off the top of my head. Heinberg’s “Searching for a Miracle: ‘Net Energy’ Limits and the Fate of Industrial Society” has some calculations and references- he gets a slightly more pessimistic numbers but still well over 1 for both photovoltaic solar and wind question. I’d also point to this source. There’s disagreement over what the EROEI of most of these is, but there’s no serious argument that they aren’t greater than 1.