{"id":41,"date":"2015-02-10T09:33:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-10T09:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2015-02-12T07:40:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-12T07:40:30","slug":"terminology","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/challenge\/terminology","title":{"rendered":"Post-Petroleum Terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of preparing and organizing <a href=\"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/\">LetTheSunWork<\/a>, we realized one day that if we were not careful, we would lapse into a peculiar form of jargon that seems quite natural to those who are post-petroleum literate but can be confusing, off-putting, and impenetrable to those who are coming to these issues for the first time. So here&#8217;s a rundown of post-petroleum terminology. We hope to update it as we add information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">EROEI<\/span> &#8211; Energy Returned over Energy Invested. One of the foundations of post-petroleum <a href=\"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/energy.htm\">energy<\/a> literacy. It describes the relationship between what we get out of an energy source, whether conventional oil, solar power, biofuels, etc. and the energy that must be used to get it. <a href=\"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/challenge\/eroei.htm\">Read more about EROEI<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Post-Petroleum<\/span> &#8211; relating to the age after the arrival of <a href=\"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/challenge\/peakoil.htm\">peak oil<\/a>, when the price of petroleum and all things needing petroleum increases dramatically.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of preparing and organizing LetTheSunWork, we realized one day that if we were not careful, we would lapse into a peculiar form of jargon that seems quite natural to those who are post-petroleum literate but can be confusing, off-putting, and impenetrable to those who are coming to these issues for the first &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/challenge\/terminology\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Post-Petroleum Terminology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41\/revisions\/581"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/letthesunwork.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}