The paper argues against the claim made by Emergy Analysts that emergy is an exergy-based procedure. Both Emergy- and … Exergy Analysis employ space- and time integrated energy input/output models to quantitatively assess the resource … consumption of physical systems: the issue at stake is whether Emergy is embodied energy or embodied exergy. Although the …

Extended exergy appears to be the only currently available second-law based and unified metric for ecological … “operation” of a complex society. The method of analysis is called Extended Exergy Accounting (EEA), and it was used in this … are presented for the extended exergy cost by considering four modes of transportation (highways-i.c.e. powered, railways …

the application of Extended Exergy Accounting (EEA) to the quantification of such externalities. The exergy flow diagrams …

Following the critical analysis of the concept of “sustainability”, developed on the basis of exergy considerations in … one single axiom: <i>that resource consumption (material and immaterial) can be quantified solely in terms of exergy flows … behavior, does it gain an evolutionary advantage? And, what is the difference, in terms of the access to the available exergy …

of a plant, and proposes a rephrasing of the rules in an extended exergy perspective: if the production cost, including … the externalities, is measured in units of equivalent primary exergy, the Sama-Szargut rules can be directly interpreted …