School of Mechanical & Design Engineering

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This presentation sets out the very basics of ‘sustainability’, although a definition of sustainability is not attempted. Some of the very basics are the context in which the Earth and humankind exist in space and time, the Earth’s climate, the Earth’s population and humankind’s options and choices. The author advocates keeping an open mind on all available options, including the use of oil, gas, coal, tar sands, carbon capture and sequestration, nuclear power etc., as well as the technologies that are more widely considered ‘green’. The author also argues that, in addressing the challenges that humankind faces, globally concerted effort is required.

Exergy analysis is a technique at the forefront of applied thermodynamics research whereby systems that utilize energy are assessed in the light of the second law of thermodynamics. All forms of energy transfer and transport can be represented by equivalent exergy transfers which are, in fact, the quantities of work that could be produced from the same types of energy