Energy Philosophy For Entropic Times

[Editor’s Note: This essay was prepared for the New York City Peak Oil Conference, April 2006.]

If we are looking for an energy philosophy that might help us in troubled times, we can try out the multiple and disputed meanings of entropy. Warning: This has been tried before by many persons from many different angles. Some even jumped the gun, long ago, by disputing exactly how to state the Entropy Law, as it is called, while others rightly argued it is in fact a principle.

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