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- noun Plural form of
irreversibility .
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And what will be the level of damage, the irreversibilities, the cascading crisis effects associated with the delay in doing so?
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And what will be the level of damage, the irreversibilities, the cascading crisis effects associated with the delay in doing so?
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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 Sean 2007
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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 2000
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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.
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A technical process like an engine process involves losses. heat transfer and other irreversibilities and cannot therefore be described by the isentropic exponent g.
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We have made much less progress on multi-sector dynamic general equilibrium models with endogenous innovation, irreversibilities, learning and uncertainty.
World is Green 2009
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