Abstract
In the modern economy, we seem to employ technological strategies to capture, concentrate, and release energy in order to accomplish certain predetermined objectives. Here, these strategies are called processes of energy transformation. Through them, a flow or stock of energy is converted into a form viewed as more useful to the system of which the transformation process is a part. To carry out the transformation of an energy input into a more desirable output (e.g., coal into space heat, mechanical motion, electricity, process heat, and so on), energy flows are required with which to construct facilities and to operate and maintain the transformation processes. These flows are called processing energies.
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Energy, Economics, and the Environment |
Subtitle of host publication | Conflicting Views of an Essential Interrelationship |
Editors | Herman E Daly |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 81-107 |
Number of pages | 27 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780429048968 |
ISBN (Print) | 9780367019105, 9780367168971 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2019 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences