The Energy Cost of Energy

Bruce Hannon

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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 languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationEnergy, Economics, and the Environment
Subtitle of host publicationConflicting Views of an Essential Interrelationship
EditorsHerman E Daly
PublisherRoutledge
Pages81-107
Number of pages27
ISBN (Electronic)9780429048968
ISBN (Print)9780367019105, 9780367168971
DOIs
StatePublished - 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Social Sciences

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