Special Issue "New Studies in EROI (Energy Return on Investment)"

Associate Editor
Dr. Doug Hansen
Hansen Financial Management 12717 Monterey Cypress Way San Diego, CA 92130, USA
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Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Charles A.S. Hall
Faculty of Environmental & Forest Biology, College of Environmental Science & Forestry, State University of New York, 354 Illick Hall, 1 Forestry Drive, Syracuse, New York 13210, USA
Website: http://www.esf.edu/EFB/hall/
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Interests: systems ecology; computer simulation models; integrative geographical modeling of environments and economies

Dear Colleagues,

This special issue presents the results of approximately 20 new studies on energy return on investment, including 10 empirical studies of particular energy resources and a similar number examining methodological issues and the social and economic implications of changing EROIs.  The studies cover the most important energy resources currently used by Western society, as well as several possible alternatives.  The results, which have great consistency across studies, have enormous implications for our economies and for society more generally.  Several papers examine the direct economic and psychological implications of declining EROI, as well as the implications for planning. We believe that taken as a whole these papers have great power in helping to understand our current economic difficulties as well as guiding what we must do to adjust to new energy realities.  A failure to understand these issues will severely limit our ability to plan for the future.

Charles A.S. Hall
Doug Hansen
Guest Editors

Planed Papers:

1. Conceptual Issues

Author: Charles A.S. Hall
Title: Introduction to Special Issue

Authors: David J. Murphy, Charles A.S. Hall, Michael Dale and Cutler Cleveland
Title: Order from Chaos: A Preliminary Protocol for Determining the EROI of Fuels

Authors: Ajay K. Gupta and Charles A.S. Hall
Title: A Review of the Past and Current State of EROI Data

Authors: Michael Dale, Susan Krumdieck and Pat Bodger
Title: A Dynamic Function for Energy Return on Investment

Authors: Philip F. Henshaw, Carey King and Jay Zarnikau
Title: System Energy Assessment (SEA), Defining a Standard Measure of EROI for Energy Businesses as Whole Systems

Authors: Carey W. King and Charles A.S. Hall
Title: Relating Financial and Energy Return on Investment

2. EROI for Conventional Fossil Fuels

Authors: Megan C. Guilford, Charles A.S. Hall, Pete O'Connor and Cutler J. Cleveland
Title: A New Long Term Assessment of EROI for U.S. Oil and Gas Discovery and Production

Authors: Leena Grandell, Charles A.S. Hall and Mikael Höök
Title: Energy Return on Investment for Norwegian Oil and Gas in 1991–2008

Author: Adam R. Brandt
Title: Oil Depletion and the Energy Efficiency of Oil Production: The Case of California

Authors: Hu Yan, Feng Lianyong, Charles A.S. Hall and Tian Dong
Title: Analysis of the EROI of the Huge Daqing Oil Field in China

Author: Jon Freise
Title: The EROI of Conventional Canadian Natural Gas Production

Authors: Bryan Sell, David Murphy and Charles A.S. Hall
Title: Energy Return on Energy Invested for Tight Gas Wells in the Appalachian Basin, United States of America: A Canary in the Gas Field?

Authors: Matthew Moerschbaecher and John W. Day Jr.
Title: Ultra-Deepwater Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas: Energy Return on Financial Investment and a Preliminary Assessment of Energy Return on Energy Investment

3. EROI for Other Fuels

Authors: Charles A.S. Hall, Bruce Dale and David Pimentel
Title: Seeking to Understand the Reasons for Different EROI Assessments of Biofuels

Authors: Cutler J. Cleveland and Peter A. O'Connor
Title: Energy Return on Investment (EROI) of Oil Shale

Authors: Ali S. Pracha and Timothy A. Volk
Title: An Edible Energy Return on Investment (EEROI) Analysis of Wheat and Rice in Pakistan

Author: Roberto Cesare Callarotti
Title: EROI for the Electrical Heating of Methane Hydrate Reservoirs

4. Looking Forward

Authors: Jessica G. Lambert and Gail P. Lambert
Title: Predicting the Psychological Response of the American People to Oil Depletion and Declining EROI

Authors: Shinuo Deng and George Tynan
Title: Implications of Energy in Return on Energy Invested on Future Total Energy Demand

Authors: Yannis Ikessides and David Wade
Title: Deriving an Improved, Dynamic EROI to Provide Better Information for Energy Planners

Author: Jack Manno
Title: Looking for a Silver Linning: The Possible Positives of Declining EROI

Author: Charles A.S. Hall
Title: Synthesis

• energy
• oil
• natural gas
• ethanol
• financial
• economics
• EROI
• society
• energy methodology
• United States
• China
• Norway