Welcome to EROEI.COM!
Wondering What All the Hype is About Oil and Energy and How it Really Makes a Difference to Your Life?- Let us de-mystify and simplify the concepts of harnessing energy, storing energy, and using energy. Travel the history of the Energy Chain and see where we are today.
- Look at "amazing" and "astounding" breakthroughs in science...and see if they really pass the test. That "new" energy source? Is it a public relation creation or hard science? We'll let you know!
- Read our list of alternative energy devices and how they compare in the big picture.
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- Educate yourself and your family in what may be the biggest turning point in our world today: peak oil.
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Current Articles
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Mercedes plan fuel seven year ditch (19.Jun.2008)
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| MERCEDES are aiming to end the need for filling your fuel tank with petrol or diesel within just SEVEN YEARS. | |
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Indian minister attacks biofuels (26.Mar.2008)
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| Indian Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said that it is "outrageous" that developed countries are turning food crops into bio fuels. | |
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We can't cling to crude: we should leave oil before it leaves us (02.Mar.2008)
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| We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to run out and it is imperative that governments in both producing and consuming nations prepare now for that time. | |
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Why the price of 'peak oil' is famine (09.Feb.2008)
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| Vulnerable regions of the world face the risk of famine over the next three years as rising energy costs spill over into a food crunch, according to US investment bank Goldman Sachs. | |
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EU 'should ban inefficient cars' (04.Feb.2008)
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| The EU should ban the sale of cars that do under 35 miles to the gallon, the ex-chairman of oil giant Shell says. | |
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Ten Ways to Prepare for a Post-Oil Society (16.Jan.2008)
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| by James Howard Kunstler. "Out in the public arena, people frequently twang on me for being “Mister Gloom’n’doom,” or for “not offering any solutions” to our looming energy crisis. So, for those of you who are tired of wringing your hands, who would like to do something useful, or focus your attention in a purposeful way, here are my suggestions..." | |
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Oil-Rich Nations Use More Energy, Cutting Exports (08.Dec.2007)
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| The economies of many big oil-exporting countries are growing so fast that their need for energy within their borders is crimping how much they can sell abroad, adding new strains to the global oil market. | |
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Waste Water Plus Bacteria Make Hydrogen Fuel - Study (13.Nov.2007)
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Bacteria that feed on vinegar and waste water zapped with
a shot of electricity could produce a clean hydrogen fuel to power
vehicles that now run on petroleum, researchers reported on Monday. | |
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New disaster movie warns world of oil apocalypse (02.Nov.2007)
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| A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, which opens in UK cinemas this week, shows stark images of rusting Texan and Venezuelan wells and fuel riots in Asia and Africa. Such scenes will be repeated thousands of times around the planet in the near future, argue the film's makers, who say the world is facing changes 'more frightening than a horror movie'. | |
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The Doors Of Perception: Why Americans Will Believe Almost Anything (01.Nov.2007)
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| We are the most conditioned, programmed beings the world has ever known. Not only are our thoughts and attitudes continually being shaped and molded; our very awareness of the whole design seems like it is being subtly and inexorably erased. The doors of our perception are carefully and precisely regulated. Who cares, right? | |
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Biofuels 'crime against humanity' (26.Oct.2007)
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| A United Nations expert has condemned the growing use of crops to produce biofuels as a replacement for petrol as a crime against humanity. | |
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Engdahl Can't Comprehend Hubbert Oil PEAK (18.Oct.2007)
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| "Several readers brought to my attention an article by a big-time writer who claims the whole idea of the Hubbert Oil Peak is bunk. Mr. Engdahl makes a very common and quite stupid mistake: he and a host of others think that Peak Oil is when oil runs out!" | |
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Windbelt, Cheap Generator Alternative, Set to Power Third World (11.Oct.2007)
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| Frayne’s device, which he calls a Windbelt, is a taut membrane fitted with a pair of magnets that oscillate between metal coils. Prototypes have generated 40 milliwatts in 10-mph slivers of wind, making his device 10 to 30 times as efficient as the best microturbines. | |
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One Molecule Could Cure Our Addiction to Oil (22.Sep.2007)
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| On a blackboard, it looks so simple: Take a plant and extract the cellulose. Add some enzymes and convert the cellulose molecules into sugars. Ferment the sugar into alcohol. Then distill the alcohol into fuel... | |
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Giving up car revs family up (15.Sep.2007)
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| Santa Ana household recoups 35% of its income after ditching ailing auto for bicycles and greener lifestyle. | |
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How this 12inch miracle tube could halve heating bills (13.Sep.2007)
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| Amazing British invention creates MORE energy than you put into it - and could soon be warming your home. | |
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As An Energy-Saver, the Clothesline Makes a Comeback (26.Aug.2007)
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| A 'Right to Dry' Movement Is Growing, with Some States Introducing Legislation to Override Clothesline Bans | |
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Dean Kamen's Stirling Solution (02.Aug.2007)
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| "The big advantage is once we’re in production with that engine, where it will really be uniquely valuable is to the 1.6 billion people on this plant who’ve never used electricity," says Kamen. "We will become the Con Edison of every village in Asia, Africa and Central America." | |
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Ethanol Hurts the Environment And Is One of America's Biggest Political Boondoggles (24.Jul.2007)
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| The great danger of confronting peak oil and global warming isn't that we will sit on our collective asses and do nothing while civilization collapses, but that we will plunge after "solutions" that will make our problems even worse. Like believing we can replace gasoline with ethanol, the much-hyped biofuel that we make from corn. | |
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The biofuel myths (10.Jul.2007)
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| "...biofuel draws its power from cornucopian myths and directs our attention away from economic interests that would benefit from the transition, while avoiding discussion of the growing North-South food and energy imbalance." | |
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The world has two energy crises but no real answers (10.Jul.2007)
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| Brendan Nelson, Australia's defence minister, has caused sharp intakes of breath by saying something that is obviously true. He remarked last week that the Middle East was "an important supplier of energy, oil in particular" and that - as a result - people "need to think what would happen if there were a premature withdrawal from Iraq". | |
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IEA sees oil-supply crunch looming (09.Jul.2007)
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| World oil demand will rise faster than expected to 2012 while production lags, leading to a supply crunch, the International Energy Agency said on Monday. | |
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Could jatropha be a biofuel panacea? (08.Jul.2007)
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| Energy giant BP has just announced it is investing almost £32m in a jatropha joint venture with UK biofuels firm D1 Oils. | |
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Shell CEO Says Conservation Isn't Enough (06.Jul.2007)
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| "Well, the first priority is conservation, because more than half of the energy we generate today is wasted." | |
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State to get biodiesel facility (28.Jun.2007)
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| "Ethanol has been a disaster," he said. "It costs too much to get (fuel) out of corn. We're relying on food -- that's stupid. Eating comes before riding." | |
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The Cellulosic Ethanol Delusion (28.Jun.2007)
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| "Despite repeated claims to the contrary, there is no energy-efficient and scalable industrial technology for producing ethanol from biomass." | |
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From Peak Oil To Dark Age (24.Jun.2007)
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| Oil output has stalled, and it's not clear the capacity exists to raise production. | |
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China building more power plants (18.Jun.2007)
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| China is now building about two power stations every week. | |
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Oil Industry Scales Back Refinery Plans (16.Jun.2007)
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| Push for Increase in Biofuels Causes Oil Industry to Scale Back Refinery Expansion. | |
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New Law Makes Biofuels Obligatory in Spain in 2009 (11.Jun.2007)
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| The use of at least a small amount of plant-based biofuel in all transport fuels would become compulsory in Spain from 2009 under an energy law due to be approved by Congress this week. | |
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Designer bug holds key to endless fuel (09.Jun.2007)
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| THE US scientist who cracked the human genome is poised to create the world's first man-made species, a synthetic microbe that could lead to an endless supply of biofuel. | |
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Laser vision fuels energy future (05.Jun.2007)
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| Researchers from the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, working with partners from 14 countries, have tabled a proposal to use lasers to recreate the physical reactions at the heart of the Sun. | |
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Water into fuel? (22.May.2007)
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Retired TV station owner and broadcast engineer, John Kanzius, wasn't looking for an answer to the energy crisis.
He was looking for a cure for cancer.
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Energy in a Post-Peak World (22.May.2007)
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| Interactive Slide Show by Simmons & Company International. | |
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Clean energy claim: Aluminum in your car tank (17.May.2007)
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| Professor says Energy Department ‘egos’ blocking hydrogen breakthrough. | |
