TWIMC,
James Kay, the same author who spoke of organisms as devices "FOR" dissipating energy, has written an idiot's guide to exergy (converse of entropy), which, since I am an idiot, I appreciated very much.
I am still trying to get my mind around the idea of a heat pump as a device which uses a small quantity of high exergy energy to gather up a lot of low exergy energy and use it to heat a house.
Something is gnawing at me here. It seems to me that exergy is like relativity in that its quantity is entirely dependent on point of view. Or something.
Anyway, the url is
http://www.fes.uwaterloo.ca/u/jjkay/pubs/exergy/Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Professor of Psychology and Ethology
Clark University
[hidden email]
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/[hidden email]
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