Thermodynamics and Entropy

Order is expensive and disorder is free: any organised system needs a continuous energy input or it decays. Businesses, portfolios and processes all drift toward disorder the moment maintenance stops, which is why maintenance capex and culture work are not optional. Energy flow, not accounting, is the physical constraint under every economy.

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  1. Deep SimplicityJohn Gribbin, 2004
  2. The Second LawP. W. Atkins, 1984
  3. Energy and Civilization: A HistoryVaclav Smil, 2017

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Ilya Prigogine, Isabelle Stengers · 1984
Vaclav Smil · 2006 · Smil's short primer on energy conversions and their physical limits
Gino Segre · 2002 · Popular history of temperature and heat; entropy for the general reader