A review of the past and current state of EROI data

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1796-1809

  Gupta, Ajay K ^a   Hall, Charles A S ^a  

^a STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy return on investment; EROI data; EROI of fuels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855911565     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3101796     Document Type: Review

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