Desalination energy inputs have been reduced more than 50 percent in the past decade.

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The energy inputs required to produce the crops included nitrogen fertiliser, herbicides, diesel and seed production.

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We can enjoy a rising quality of life with declining energy inputs.

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Now ( on p. 122) comes along Peter Huber, my favorite envirocolumnist, to say that comparing energy inputs to energy outputs is an accounting error.

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Overall, the team found, the organic systems used resources more efficiently, producing more for each unit of energy and other inputs they consumed.

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The second generation of bioenergy crops has the potential to produce more energy on poorer soils and with fewer inputs than any crops we use for energy now.

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Are we merely hoping to hold onto our standards of living, while reducing the inputs of energy and raw materials?

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