Relating financial and energy return on investment

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1810-1832

  King, Carey W ^a   Hall, Charles A S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy business; EROI; Net energy; Profit; Return on investment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855726666     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3101810     Document Type: Article

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