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- noun ecology the
ratio ofemergy to availableenergy
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Emergy (with an "m") analysis is a pure cost-of-production approach that measures the quality of a particular type of energy by its transformity.
Net energy analysis 2008
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The ratio of the total emergy input to the available energy of the product was named transformity.
Emergy 2008
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But is the usefulness of a fuel as an input to production related to its transformity?
Energy quality 2008
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This approach raises a fundamental question about the appropriateness of transformities to reflect energy quality: Is the usefulness of a fuel as an input to production related to its transformity?
Net energy analysis 2008
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Coals thus have vastly different embodied emergy, but only a single transformity for coal is normally used.
Energy quality 2008
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Civil war, its foreign interactions, and the transformity of weapons in the Battle of Gettysburg.
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His rational was that power maximization would favor high power, low transformity processes, which in evolutionary terms would not prevail in competition with more complex systems of low power but high transformity.
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Calculation of a revised solar transformity for tidal energy received and tidal energy dissipated globally.
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With David Scienceman and M.T. Brown, the terms Emergy spelled with an "m," transformity, and empower were defined to avoid confusing terminology involved with "embodied energy."
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The IPM president's award recognised Mboweni for "promoting the visionary transformity legislation that will have a positive impact on South Africa's global positioning through effective utilisation of all people".
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