The first part of the chapter focuses on exergy as the confluence of energy, environment, and sustainable development.
Following the discussion of exergy as the confluence of energy, environment, and sustainable development the application is described of exergy concepts and methods to industrial operations and their analysis, design, improvement, and optimization.
In this chapter, we consider exergy management through four main aspects including the confluence of energy, environment, and sustainable development; application of exergy concepts and methods to industrial operations and problems; the integration of exergy analysis with industrial ecology; and finally exergy in policy development and education.
Other economists countered that the spike was an aberration brought about by a confluence of high energy prices and some short-term, unworrisome factors.
The 2011 uprisings, it would seem - triggered by a confluence of domestic energy shortages and climate-induced droughts which led to massive food price hikes - came at an opportune moment that was quickly exploited.
Mr. Snarr says he is convinced that the confluence of fast-rising energy and land costs, static incomes and the region's swift population growth are producing the market conditions for a successful new neighborhood on land along Fireclay Avenue that has served as his city's industrial backyard.
Despite what would seem to be a confluence of needs on energy, there was little chance that Russia and China would resolve the outstanding differences over delivery of gas to China in time for an agreement between the two leaders, Arkady V. Dvorkovich, a Russian vice prime minister, said on the eve of the visit.
"The Edgelands was based on an expedition I did that followed the physical infrastructure of the internet, all the way through the American landscape to Prineville Oregon, a town at the confluence of cheap hydro energy and tax incentives, where Facebook, Amazon, Google, Apple, etc have all set up their data centres".
Both Thomas Pynchon and Shadow Morton, both of them great Long Island artists of the 1960s, knew they inhabited a geocultural even a geophysical singularity, an energy terrain, an inexplicable confluence of influences which somehow wound up all tied up.
Ms. Lav pointed to a confluence of factors — including weak consumer spending, high energy prices, dropping housing values and growing foreclosure rates — that suggest states will face a protracted struggle to keep their budgets afloat.
