The total energy requirements of household consumption of all goods and services have been calculated. Source for consumption data is the 1972–1973 Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Consumer Survey. These are converted to energy terms using input-output energy intensities. The dependence of...

This contains my goals for, and reactions to, the Panel on ‘Strategies’ at the Workshop, ‘Advances in Energy Studies: Exploring Supplies, Constraints, and Strategies’, 23–27 May 2000, Porto Venere, Italy. The very ambitious goals for the four speakers were not fully realized; hence my...

We have applied standard energy analysis to 4 types of geothermal-electric technologies: liquid dominated, hot dry rock, geopressure, and vapor dominated. We find that all are net energy producers, i.e. they have an energy ratio exceeding unity, where energy ratio = net electric energy produced...