>In 2016, according a trends analysis based on this report by the Royal Society of London, the energy return on energy investment (EROEI) for oil appears to have fallen below a ratio of 15 to 1 globally. In places like the United States, where extraction efforts increasingly rely on unconventional techniques like fracking, that EROEI has fallen to 10 or 11 to 1 or lower.
>Meanwhile, according to a new study by the Imperial College of London, solar energy’s return on investment ratio as of 2015 was 14 to 1 and rising. What this means is that a global energy return on investment inflection point between oil and solar was likely reached at some time during the present year.
So now solar power is better than oil power
Thomas Morgan
Call me when you'll drive a solar powered car, dumb ass.
Charles James
I already have driven a solar car though
Joseph Wilson
Because the government subsidizes what, 70% of the cost?
Austin Ross
That's fine, but we don't have the infrastructure to switch over yet. We should switch ultimately, but that's a long process.
Anthony Scott
Tell me about this. How fast does it go?
Parker Morgan
>So now solar power is better than oil power And they're both shit compared to nuclear.
Liam Bennett
Wow you're on the Michigan solar car team!
Did you know that you are the least capable scum tier engineer out of all the other project teams?
Chase Walker
Well maybe some of that, maybe some China and slave labor, maybe ignore the fact you need an oil based infrastructure to manufacture them, ignore how much oil, water and other resources go into the production, planting them in deserts far away from people...yeah, the agenda...we are taking your oil and giving you this amazing technology!
Jaxson Gonzalez
Solar can't be used for base load. They are not directly competing forms of power.
The only "green" power alternatives are hydro, nuclear and geothermal.
