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Material Limits and the True Value of L: A Thermodynamic Framework for the Longevity of Technological Civilizations
Version 11 — revision notes This version makes one substantive change to the thermodynamic foundations of Section 5. The exergy analysis previously grounded in Bejan (2016) and Dincer and Rosen (2021) is now grounded in Bejan (2016) and Rex and Finn (2024), whose fourth edition of Finn's Thermal Physics provides an updated and more pedagogically direct treatment of exergy and availability, including recent material on thermodynamic applications to climate systems. The in-text citation in Section 5 and the reference list have been updated accordingly; Dincer and Rosen (2021) has been removed. No other changes have been made since v10. The manuscript text, scaling relation, taxonomy of constraint channels, and conclusions remain as in the previous version. Zenodo · doi.org
Paul Gilster
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