Response to comment on: “A critical review on heat and mass transfer modelling of viral infection and virion evolution the case of SARS-COV2”

Goran Wall's "Exergy, Ecology and Democracy - Concepts of a vital society or a proposal for an exergy tax" has come a long way since its presentation in 1992. Wall has extended the thermodynamics to the sustainability analysis of economic, environmental and societal models. The authors of this paper aim to discuss Wall's intuitions in today's scenario. Governments are assuming increasing measures against climate change and toward sustainability. However, these measures do not affect the concentration of greenhouse gases and global heating. It is an evident failure from a thermodynamic point of view. The economic indicators used by governments to measure the progress toward U.N. Sustainability Development Goals and the Paris Agreement reveal a scarce consistency. One of the most used is "domestic material consumption" (DMC). It accounts for the mass balance of the materials entering or exiting a national economic system. However, it lacks consistency and delivers insufficient information because it neglects the impacts of import-export. As Wall shows, more effective and consistent indicators are necessary to account for sustainability. The most relevant is exergy, which has been presented and discussed widely.

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Exergy, ecology and democracy - concepts of a vital society or a proposal for an exergy tax 30 years after - Part 1: Generalities

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Páscoa

Catellani³

2023

Therm sci

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Response to comment on: “A critical review on heat and mass transfer modelling of viral infection and virion evolution the case of SARS-COV2”

Abstract: The paper contains a response to the comment by Popovich and Mincheva, focusing on the different meanings of the analysis according to the first and the second law of thermodynamics and their complementary and never alternative nature.

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Exergy, ecology and democracy - concepts of a vital society or a proposal for an exergy tax 30 years after - Part 1: Generalities

Exergy, ecology and democracy - concepts of a vital society or a proposal for an exergy tax 30 years after - Part 1: Generalities

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