Entropy, like energy, force, distance, and other physical concepts, has a phenomenological meaning. Energy is available or unavailable according to whether or not we can use it for our purposes. In an isolated system, the amount of energy remains constant, while the available energy continuously and irrevocably degrades.
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The Entropy Law and the Economic Process in Retrospect
Entropy, like energy, force, distance, and other physical concepts, has a phenomenological meaning. Energy is available or unavailable according to whether or not we can use it for our purposes. In an isolated system, the amount of energy remains constant, while the available energy continuously and irrevocably degrades.
Entropy, like energy, force, distance, and other physical concepts, has a phenomenological meaning. Energy is available or unavailable according to whether or not we can use it for our purposes. In an isolated system, the amount of energy remains constant, while the available energy continuously and irrevocably degrades.
(Yale Agrarian Studies Series) Jessica Barnes, Michael R. Dove-Climate Cultures - Anthropological Perspectives On Climate Change-Yale University Press (2015)