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BartB on October 12, 2006 - 2:59am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Nate,

Look at the scientific work of H.T. Odum on emergy. Emergy provides a accounting system for the work of nature and humans.

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Nate Hagens on October 12, 2006 - 11:16pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I should have written 'we still dont have a system other than Odums eMergy' for assimilating all inputs other than energy
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Robert Rapier on October 13, 2006 - 12:11am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
In fact, the criticism of the paper with the lower EROEI, in addition to having the diesel input wrong, was that it represented emergy, and not energy.
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