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'Systematic' or 'Systemic'? systemic, syn. pervasive
Systemic is somewhat more formal [nope], and it is primarily used to describe what relates to an entire system, be that system physical, organizational, or societal. A systemic disease affects the entire body or organism; systemic changes to an organization impact the entire organization; and a systemic problem in a society pervades the entire society.
Systematic is the more common of the pair. [nope] In current English, it is most often used to describe something [sic] that uses or applies a careful system or method, or that is done according to a system.
So. What are the parts of an "energy system"? Are there more than one? And who are those people who design system components that work together to produce such systems' expected result? AFAICT, the desired result among "experts" has not deviated over 40 years of "study" from sustainable (read: constant) mechanical waste product. Among people given power by "global leaders" to pronounce systemic description rather than prescribe systematic elimination of human waste, it appears to me that Germans' radical if deceitful approach to experimental, ahem, energy systems' synergy fills the breach between theory and design. Am I mistaken to expect "global leaders" to learn from this interlude how to gracefully degrade industrial precepts of universal prosperity?
archived classification and its consequences
As I learned from spending time with big-name journalists in small, informal groups, sometimes not only can't we see the forest for the trees, often we don't see the trees for the leaves. Concentrating on maximizing the power output from a single wind turbine in a wind farm can be detrimental to the overall energy efficiency of the wind farm, as MIT has shown. That is not seeing the tree for the leaves.
* The annual energy production of USAmerica is about 100 quadrillion btu's and about 2/3rds of that is "rejected energy," does no useful work, is lost to friction, in distribution and transmission, dissipated as waste heat. There are ways to capture at least some of that rejected energy but we don't usually link up a waste heat source with a method to use it productively. The EU, especially Denmark, seems to be much better at that particular aspect of energy planning with all their district heating systems. Solar IS Civil Defense
This was weeks before the RUSSIAN war of aggression that precipitate the EU Russian gas "embargo". 7 months of qual and quant data is in the can.
How did EU27 prepare constituencies for a functional "just transition" to renewable fuel consumption? (optional: drought, controlled demand destruction, emergency)
What improvements to design can EU27 affect to achieve least cost, greatest good scale efficiencies and one objective?
The current crisis looks set to leave behind it a radically different system, but what that system will look like remains an open question
four broad principles: (i) all countries bringing forward every available supply-side flexibility, (ii) all countries making comprehensive efforts to reduce demand, (iii) a political committing to maintain energy markets and cross-border flows, (iv) compensation for the most vulnerable consumers. This grand bargain can be the first step on a new course towards united energy policy at EU level. ...
[TRUE] ... could undermine the goals of calming energy markets over the next 18 months and achieving ambitious decarbonisation targets. At the basis of the crisis is a post-COVID-19 global energy imbalance. While demand bounced back quickly as economies re-opened, supply did not. A particular challenge is that the reducing supply of fossil fuels in line with climate targets has not been matched by a commensurate reduction of fossil-fuel demand. [FALSE] ... Russian manipulation of European natural gas markets since summer 2021, exploiting its significant market power, has deepened the crisis.
[FALSE] ... Russian manipulation of European natural gas markets since summer 2021, exploiting its significant market power, has deepened the crisis.
US Congress from the Kyiv coup d'état in 2014 forward put sanctions on Russia in place and did everything possible to stop an European consortium to build Nord Stream 2. Even after Biden agreed with Chancellor Merkel the pipeline could be finished (June 2021) after a two year delay❗️the German government did not certify the exploitation due to a new EU law put in place by a terrified EP in Strasbourg ... or is it Brussels? It is all Europe's undoing ... don't do stupid things [quote president Obama 😂].
Biden launched a very successful Blitzkrieg this year and destroyed Europe as an economic community. Let the Socialists die ... 'Sapere aude'
Exergy is not often mentioned just as "full cost accounting," which would include all externalities within an economic measurement of a product or service, is not often mentioned in traditional economics.
Full cost accounting is rarely mentioned in traditional economics (including the neoliberal and socialism-lite schools that inform our political decisions) because it is a political minefield and would show our sustainability models to be sick jokes. I suspect something similar is the case with exergy.
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