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From EROI to EROLI: energy return on Land investment ? 2/2

8 mei 2022admin
landschap

In the agricultural project that I described in my previous contribution [1], which was initially about the EROI, the energy return on energy investment, I subsequently calculated the effects back to land’input’. But then the thought soon arised: would is… Continue Reading →

agriculture, assessment, biobased, biomass, Embodied Land, EROI, EROLI, food, labor, land, landuse, system boundaries

EROI and land use of potato crop – a pilot 1/2

25 april 2022admin
aardappeleters

In a recent project , ‘Verrijkende Landbouw’ ( Enriching Agriculture) [1], I was able to refine the theory and methodology of MAXergy, using Embodied Land as an indicator [2], thanks to a practical pilot. As follows. Agriculture needs to change.… Continue Reading →

agriculture, biomass, Embodied Land, EROI, food, labor, land, landuse, MAXergy

The Bionological House

7 maart 2022admin
treehouses

With vegetables, we’ve been doing it for years: most current vegetables never existed, in an autonomous evolutionary process. We as humans have slowly transformed them so that they grow the way we appreciate them, and want them on our plates.… Continue Reading →

agriculture, architecture, biobased, bionology, building, Embodied Land, future, housing stock, land, landuse, materials, prefab, technology

Carbon storage: the land-time relation 2/2

20 februari 2022admin
1-tree-island-lone-palm-tree-on-small-island-john-lund

There are many ways you can start “accounting” for CO2 (as comments on the previous article also showed), but at the end of the day what matters are absolute CO2 emissions, from whatever activity. And cutting down a tree and… Continue Reading →

agriculture, assessment, biobased, climate, CO2, Embodied Land, forests, future, housing stock, land, landuse, materials, resources

Carbon storage in wood-timber 1/2

14 februari 2022admin
co2-protest_1372397i

Storage (binding) of CO2 in wood/timber is a hot issue at the moment*. But how should that be calculated really? Before I go into more detail, a few preliminary remarks: (the part on ‘calculating’ has been later added, and ‘CO2’… Continue Reading →

assessment, biobased, biomass, building, CO2, forests, future, land, materials, system boundaries

Golf – the decadence in our use of space

5 december 2021admin
golf-coesfeld-gc-duitsland-golfreizen-overzicht-holes

For a new book, I explore the space-time relationship of many human activities, as a measure of our system impact, and to see if there are alternatives that can do with less. Space time in the sense that the conversion… Continue Reading →

Embodied Land, future, land, landuse, policies, society, sports

The renewal time of all resources- Maxergy 3.0

2 augustus 2021admin
regeneratie-volhoudbaar-landgebruik-2b

Everything is renewable – classification after growth rate – renewal time, flow rate . As a result of some recent projects new insights developed over resources, that any resource is renewed. Its only a matter of time. But that implies… Continue Reading →

agriculture, embodied energy, Embodied Land, exergy, land, landuse, materials, resources, solar energy

Energy poverty ? No, energy luxuriance

26 juni 2021admin
cooking-on-wood

I recently was triggered a few times by the term: ‘Energy Poverty’ in all kinds of reports and tweets [1-4] . Usually referred to as having little access to oil, gas and coal, in what is then called the poorer… Continue Reading →

behaviour, biomass, comfort, energy, future, labor, land, lifestyle, policies, society

light pole materials compared…

30 mei 2021admin
lantaarnpaal-lichtmast-landschap

I am often amazed at the amount of lights in the built environment, which only seems to be growing. Everyone thinks they have to illuminate everything. Driveways, stairs, gardens, anything you can think of has a light on it. That… Continue Reading →

Embodied Land, exergy, land, materials, MAXergy, resources

Land, between heaven and earth

8 februari 2021admin
land-air

It is intriguing how the world fundamentally works, with its cycles, driven mainly by solar energy. Which can be traced back mainly to the yields of land, as I found out earlier. [1,2] (Land that has virtually disappeared from economic… Continue Reading →

agriculture, biobased, biomass, capital, commons, Embodied Land, food, forests, land, landuse, society

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