Homework (Due before class on Thursday, 1/7/16): Read this brief review of how Canada's tar sands relate to the concept of EROI: http://oilsandstruth.org/understanding-energy-return-on-energy-investment-eroei
If you still need a little more background info about EROI, check out this: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eroi-behind-numbers-energy-return-investment/
Once you have a full understanding of tar sands and EROI, create a blog post that answers the following:
1) Which energy source should we extract and use first, oil shale or tar sands? Why?
2) Describe one similarity between the process used to get oil from tar sands and the process used to get oil from oil shale.
3) Describe one key difference between the process used to get oil from tar sands and the process used to get oil from oil shale.
4) Explain, in terms of EROI, why the author believes "off-shore oil drilling may be a smart way to actually reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the long run".
5) Use EROI/Best First Principle to explain one decision that you have made in your day-to-day life. This could literally be anything, but I am looking for new examples other than the energy resources we have been studying. In other words, you should provide an example of how EROI influenced a decision at your individual level rather than the societal level.
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