Art Berman answers Ugo Bardi and Nafeez Ahmed about EROEI
Art Berman, a professional oil geologist, recently wrote a very good answer to Ugo Bardi and Nafeez Ahmed in the Bardi-Ahmed/Simon Michaux debate about "The Green Transition", that I referred to and commented upon in this recent blogpost. The article by Berman is this: DOES RENEWABLE ENERGY HAVE A HIGHER EROI THAN FOSSIL FUELS? (posted on his homepage 27.5.2023). Berman is very much on the side of Michaux, as far as I understand, and does not believe that renewables have a higher EROEI (Energy Return on Energy Invested) than fossil fuels, or that we can substitute the fossil fuel civilization with a renewable such of the same size. A renewable future is a very different future, according to Berman. A very much smaller and humbler future. This is also the stance of Richard Heinberg, one of those who have delved very deeply into these questions, and is maybe the most educated peakoiler out there, who first wrote about these things for the bigger audience (2003 his first Peak Oil book came out, followed by nine or ten similar books).
