Biography
Biography: Laszlo P Csernai
Abstract
The physical fundamentals of sustainable development in physics and entropy as well as the basics of energy, heat and
entropy and waste heat will be presented. Following the ground breaking work of E Schroedinger, it will be shown that
sustainable development can be quantitatively connected to decreasing entropy. Subsequently we will discuss different energy
sources, their efficiency and the connected entropy production. Energy storage and transfer will be analyzed for different
processes from the point of view of efficiency and entropy production. Finally the same analysis will be presented for energy
use and some examples from present human technology.