irreversibilities

“And what will be the level of damage, the irreversibilities, the cascading crisis effects associated with the delay in doing so?”

The Guardian: Your toughest nature questions answered

“These irreversibilities are summarized by the Second Law of Thermodynamics: the entropy of a closed system will (practically) never decrease into the future.”

Arrow of Time FAQ

“There may well be environmental irreversibilities, but technical changes may still take place, and it is a question of whether they will be too late rather than whether they will occur at all.”

Chapter 10

“The report also argues for a careful assessment of the costs and benefits of alternative policies, taking account of uncertainties and irreversibilities that may be associated with ecological processes.”

1. Rural common property resources: a growing crisis.

“A technical process like an engine process involves losses. heat transfer and other irreversibilities and cannot therefore be described by the isentropic exponent g.”

3. Essential theory on internal combustion engines

“We have made much less progress on multi-sector dynamic general equilibrium models with endogenous innovation, irreversibilities, learning and uncertainty.”

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