Energy, Entropy, Sustainability: The Need to Observe the Second Law of Economics
A special issue of Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300). This special issue belongs to the section "Multidisciplinary Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 May 2021)
Special Issue Editors
Interests: superconductivity, semiconductors; energy-, emission-, and cost optimization, energy, entropy, and economic growth
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Special Issue Information
The Second Law of Economics says that energy conversion and entropy production determine the growth of wealth.[1] It complements the First Law of Economics: Wealth is allocated on markets, and the legal framework determines the outcome. It should be observed in the search for paths of sustainable economic evolution.
The Special Issue welcomes review articles and original research reports on topics such as:
- Energy, economic growth, and constraints;
- Energy conversion, entropy production, and the emission of particles and heat;
- Emissions, health, and the stability of the biosphere;
- Life-cycle emissions of energy sources and technologies, emissions per production principle and per consumption principle, EROIs, etc.;
- Emission mitigation: Energy conservation, removal technologies, storage facilities, and fuel switching;
- Biomass as a fuel: Advantages and problems;
- Energy, emission, and cost optimization;
- Energy and exergy: Exergy analyses of production processes and economic growth;
- Taxation of energy and emissions;
- Industrialization: History, emerging economies, developing countries;
- Stationary societies, solar power satellites, and space manufacturing;
- Shannon entropy, mental impacts of information currents, risk assessments;
- Ethics.
[1] Reiner Kümmel, The Second Law of Economics: Energy, Entropy, and the Origins of Wealth, Springer, New York, 2011
Prof. Dr. Reiner Kümmel
Dr. Dietmar Lindenberger
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- energy
- entropy
- economic growth
- emission mitigation
- optimization
- risk assessments
