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Old 09-11-2018, 09:05 AM   #30 (permalink)
solarguy
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The great equalizer is EROEI.

Wiki has a not-too-bad overview. EROEI is better for fossil fuels, but the numbers steadily get worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy...nergy_invested

And if you drill down for very specific numbers from any particular industry, you have to look at the methodology. I am particularly suspicious of the nuke industry ignoring or discounting the very long storage requirement for the waste. And for those who say just recycle and re-use, that loop absolutely must produce plutonium, which raises the risk for production of very efficient nukes. Also, France's experiment with recycling fuels turned out to be dirty and expensive.
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