Emergy Tracking: Safe Transition from a
World of Exponential Growth to one of Sustainability
Keywords
- Emergy
- Emergy tracking
- Gray energy
- Sustainability
Abstract
This article proposes introduction of an emergy (embodied energy) label
to be associated with all technological items sold for more than $100 a
piece on the market. This is different from today's energy labels.
Whereas the energy labels in use today account for the energy efficiency
in using an appliance, the emergy label accounts for the energy
efficiency in producing it. The concept of emergy (or energy footprint)
as a measure of total production energy is introduced, and a procedure
for tracking emergy throughout the production chain of a
technological item is proposed.
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