• eleitl@lemmy.mlOPM
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    9 months ago

    The author has been working on the SEEDS model for about two decades. The projections are reasonable, since it is about lack of new fossil energy reserve discovery at long-term declining EROEI and new growth coming largely from debt. The fight of technology against geology has been valiant, but ultimatively doomed. If anything the model is perhaps too conservative, since it underestimates EROEI decline and does not address the Seneca effect.

    See the other posts in this community for different angles on the same problem.