Entropy Happens  

An energy blueprint toward sustainability

John R. Hoaglund, III, Ph.D.

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Dedication

Acknowledgement

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

Selected References

About the author

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