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#Emergy is defined as the #Solar #energy required, both directly and indirectly, to generate a FLOW or STORAGE within a system. #Exergy measures the maximum WORK that can be extracted from a system as it approaches thermodynamic equilibrium with a reference state. 2/4

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Mauro Rebelo 1y ago

Unlike #emergy, which encapsulates the history and all processes leading to the current state, #exergy reflects the current state’s level of organization and information content. 3/4

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Mauro Rebelo 1y ago

The #emergy to #exergy ratio provides insights into a system, indicating the concentration of #solar energy equivalent (emergy) needed to maintain or create a unit of #organization (exergy), useful for understanding self-organizing systems like #ecosystems. 4/4

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