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082			_a333.85 _bV165
100			_92915 _aAntonio Valero Capilla
245			_aThanatia: The Destiny Of The Earth's Mineral Resources _bA Thermodynamic Cradle-to-Cradle Assessment. _cAntonio Valero Capilla; Alicia Valero Delgado
250			_a1° Edición
260			_aZaragoza, España _bWorld Scientific _c2014
300			_a629 páginas _bTablas, figuras _c25.5 cm
505			_aContents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of figures -- List of tables -- The Threads: Minerals, Economy and Thermodynamics -- 1.The depletion of Non-Renewable abiotic resources -- 2.Economic versus Thermodynamic Accounting -- 3.From Thermodynamics to Economics and Ecology -- 4.Physical Geonomics: A cradle-grave-cradle Approach for Mineral Depletion Assessment -- Over the Rainbow: From nature to Industry -- 5. The Geochemistry of the earth -- 6. The resources of the Earth -- 7. An introduction to Minung and Metallurgy -- 8. Metallutgy of key minerals -- Down the Rainbow: From grave to Cradle -- 9. Thermodynamics of Mineral Resources -- 10.Thanatia and the Crepuscular earth Model -- 11. The exergy of the Earth and its mineral resources -- 12.The exergy replacement costsc of mineral wealth -- 13. The exergy evolution of mineral wealth -- Tying the rainbows: Towards a rational management resources -- 14. Recycling solutions -- 15. The challenge of resource depletion -- 16. The principles of resource efficiency -- 17. Epilogue -- Appendix A. Materials in "Green" Technologies -- Appendix B. Geochemistry and main uses of minerals -- Appendix C. The system of Environmental-Economic accounts -- Appendix D. Additional data and calculation procedures -- Appendix E. An Interview with Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen -- Bibliography -- Index
520			_aIs Gaia becoming Thanatia, a resource exhausted planet? For how long can our high-tech society be sustained in the light of declining mineral ore grades, heavy dependence on un-recycled critical metals and accelerated material dispersion? These are all root causes of future disruptions that need to be addressed today. This book presents a cradle-to-cradle view of the Earth's abiotic resources through a novel and rigorous approach based on the Second Law of Thermodynamics: heat dissipates and materials deteriorate and disperse. Quality is irreversibly lost. This allows for the assessment of such depletion and can be used to estimate the year where production of the main mineral commodities could reach its zenith. By postulating Thanatia, one acquires a sense of destiny and a concern for a unified global management of the planet's abiotic resource endowment. The book covers the core aspects of geology, geochemistry, mining, metallurgy, economics, the environment, thermodynamics and thermochemistry. It is supported by comprehensive databases related to mineral resources, including detailed compositions of the Earth's layers, thermochemical properties of over 300 substances, historical energy and mineral resource inventories, energy consumption and environmental impacts in the mining and metallurgical sector and world recycling rates of commodities.
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700			_92916 _aAlicia Valero Delgado
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