ENVI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gymnosperm, Lichen, Negative Feedback

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Energy: the capacity to do work and transfer heat. Work: when any object is moved (work = force x distance) Electromagnetic radiation - light energy moving in the form of waves. Potential energy: stored energy; has high capacity to do work. High quality: concentrated energy that has a high capacity to do work. Low quality: so dispersed that it has little capacity to do work. First law - energy is neither created nor destroyed but it can transfer between forms (eg. kinetic to heat) Sustainability is not easily achieved because even though energy can be transformed, it doesn"t necessarily turn into energy that can be harvested. Second law - energy transformation is not entirely efficient. When it is converted, the result is lower-quality (less usable) energy. Energy efficiency: getting more work out of the energy we use. No, there is a method to harvest the energy that is released as a byproduct.

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