Emily Cunningham

The astounding Dr Lina Brand Correa @librand3. Lina is a researcher of all trades: she can do super complicated quantitative work (like this paper) and pioneer super innovative qualitative and conceptual research on human needs and energy services. Wow. https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/1648/dr-lina-brand-correa …

And last but not least Lukas Hardt @lukas_hardt who is working on topics of macro-models of energy and economy. Watch out for this one! He's on his way to untangling some really complex problems and contribute to solutions. https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/staff/1708/lukas-hardt …

And I have to point out that all members of the Leeds EROI #Squad are early-career researchers, reasonably fresh out of PhD (or not even), working in their "spare" time on this joint project which is not specifically funded by any one grant. This is the best of science. END!

@exergy_paul @dr_anneowen @librand3 @lukas_hardt Thank you for publishing this paper. Question re decline of fossil fuel ROI "will lead to constraints on the energy available to society" -- couldn't governments continue to massively subsidize fossil fuels like they do now?

If governments continue to subsidize the fossil fuel industry, it would seem that (though wildly irresponsible and immoral) we would still have enough energy available to society through fossil fuels. Where am I wrong? Can you please help me to understand this?

It’s to do with how much energy you have to use to get more energy. Not money.

Even with the declining costs of oil extraction wrt fracking, we will still have problematic "constraints on the energy available to society?" Btw, I'm trying to understand this paper better so I can explain and champion its findings and implications to others more effectively.