Energy in a Mark II Economy (Version 4.0)

 

Thomas L. Wayburn, PhD in chemical engineering

Spreadsheets

http://www.justpassinthru.com/users/home/twayburn/Mark-II-Economy.xls  The fractions of gross income to each sector retained for salaries are equal.

http://www.justpassinthru.com/users/home/twayburn/Mark-II-Economy-CSP.xls   Constant sector population:  The percentage of the population associated with each sector remains constant throughout all computations.

Hyperlinked Table of Contents

Introduction

The Mark I Economy

What’s New

Energy Returned over Energy Invested (EROI) Computed Five Different Ways

To the Reader

Using the Spreadsheets

The Structure of a Mark II Economy

The Layout of the Spreadsheets

Introduction

Data Section

Initial Values and Convergence Section

Results Section

Computation Section

Experiments in a Mark II Economy

Introduction

The Experiments

Summary

Tables of Macros

The Relation of Energy to Money

Experiment 1a

Experiment 1b

Experiment 1c

Experiment 2

On EROI and Emergy

Introduction

Balance Equations

The EROI Tables

The Effect of Lowering EROI toward 1.0

The Effect of Political Economy on Total Energy Budget and EROI

Chart 1

Experiment 4

Future Work

Final Thoughts

Executive Summary

Introduction

EROI and Emergy

Tables of EROI

The Effect of Lowering EROI on Total Energy Budget and EROI

The Effect of Political Economy on Total Energy Budget and EROI

The Relation of Energy to Money

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October 18, 2006