Review article
'Energy for energy' concept or total energy rationality
Igor Dekanić
; PhD, Professor, Faculty of Mining, Geology and Petroleum Engineering,University of Zagreb, Pierottijeva 6, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
By analyzing different concepts dealing with rational use of energy, the issue that becomes growingly important for the world economy, the paper analyzes global energy economics, i.e. energy balance of energy production, or the energy cost of producing energy. This analytical direction started in the 1970s with The Limits to Growth: a report to the Club of Rome. It reappeared many times again in various concepts, from sustainable development theory and call for preservation of resources to Peak Oil theory and 'net energy cliff' concept, which prove that overall hydrocarbons production becomes less and less rational when we consider the energy needed to produce them. Analyses of the energy cost of producing energy will become an important issue of energy considerations and energy policies of the future.
Keywords
Energy, "energy cliff "concept; "energy for energy"concept, total energy rationality
Hrčak ID:
132895
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Publication date:
10.6.2014.
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