http://civileats.com/2009/04/22/shades-of-sustainability/ Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 23 May 2012 05:40:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://civileats.com/2009/04/22/shades-of-sustainability/comment-page-1/#comment-2847 Paul Kobulnicky Wed, 22 Apr 2009 19:00:12 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=3286#comment-2847 Thermodynamics tells us that sustainability is an unattainable goal ... Energy cannot either be created or destroyed, only transformed. So, no perpetual motion machines and no ultimate sustainability. But sustainability is akin to efficiency (also a thermodynamic term) that refers to minimizing entropic waste. So, sustainability might have an analogy in efficiency, much as William Clark analogs freedom or justice. Thermodynamics tells us that sustainability is an unattainable goal … Energy cannot either be created or destroyed, only transformed. So, no perpetual motion machines and no ultimate sustainability. But sustainability is akin to efficiency (also a thermodynamic term) that refers to minimizing entropic waste. So, sustainability might have an analogy in efficiency, much as William Clark analogs freedom or justice.

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