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North American Natural Gas Production and EROI Decline

Posted on February 27, 2008

(Editors Note: This is a guest post by TOD reader Jon Friese. Jon is a software engineer living in Minneapolis and a volunteer with the Twin Cities Energy Transition working group, seeking a path to a low carbon future. Under his own initiative Jon tracked down literature on EROI methodology, contacted the Canadian Government and an energy consulting company for data, and came up with the following analysis on declining energy return on Canadian Gas. The analysis is impressive (backing into an EROI estimate using $/GJ suggesting possible energy break even for natural gas within a decade). How...

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