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Table of Contents
Chapter I. Facing the moral vexation
of sustainability: the case for an ecological economic overhaul
Chapter II Entropy: Completing the
Energy Economy
Chapter II,
Section A. Energy is what it’s all about...so what is it?
Chapter II,
Section B. Why the crisis?
Chapter II,
Section C. What are the sources of our energy?
Chapter II,
Section D. All wealth is ultimately derived from the Sun
Chapter III. The Energy of
Environmental and Economic Sustainability
Chapter III,
Section A. The entropy in economic and environmental reasoning
Chapter III,
Section B. Economic fallacies in the face of entropy
Chapter III, Section B, Item
1. The Unlimited Supply Fallacy
Chapter III, Section B, Item
2. The “No Disorder” Fallacy
Chapter III,
Section C. Environmental fallacies in the face of entropy
Chapter III, Section C, Item
1. The “Renewable Energy” Misnomer and Fallacy
Chapter III, Section C, Item
2. The Agricultural Biofuels Fallacy
Chapter III, Section C, Item
3. The Pollution Paradigm Fallacy
Chapter III, Section C, Item
4. The Hydrogen Fallacy: an erroneous notion that hydrogen
solves the energy crisis and is always green
Chapter III,
Section D: A Role for Hydrogen (even without transportation fuel
cells)
Chapter III,
Section E: An Ultimate Resource Limitation for Hydrogen?
Chapter IV: An environmental balance
sheet
Chapter IV,
Section A: Manna from Heaven
Chapter IV, Section A, Item 1:
The Solar Energy Asset
Chapter IV, Section A, Item 2:
The Energy Asset of Water
Chapter IV,
Section B: Original Sin
Chapter IV,
Section C: The Environmental Energy Debits
Chapter IV, Section C, Item 1:
Contaminants: biological, radionuclide, and chemical
Chapter IV, Section C, Item 2:
Acid Precipitation / Acid Drainage
Chapter IV, Section C, Item 3:
Eutrophication
Chapter IV, Section C, Item 4:
Reduction in Biodiversity
Chapter V. By the Sweat of your Brow:
The Enthalpy and Entropy Professions