When assessing energy resources, it is helpful to use a measure called EROI, which is ________

A) money invested in extraction and processing minus income from sales
B) energy returned minus energy invested
C) energy returned divided by energy invested
D) amount of energy invested minus heat released into the environment
E) energy returned plus energy invested


C

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