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Maury Markowitx

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8. DO THE MATH!

Reply to GliderGuider (Original post)

Tue May 17, 2016, 02:36 PM

May 2016

There is so much bologna on both sides of the renewables debate that you need to check any article you see with weird results with a fine tooth comb. I did:

https://matter2energy.wordpress.com/2016/05/17/another-pv-eroei-debacle/

Basically if you just replace their numbers with ones from industry standard sources, the EROEI is positive for sure, and varies from just over 1 to as high as 2.8.

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