(Editor’s Note: This story originally ran in November 2008 and has proved a perennial favorite of Power Engineering readers. With the New Year we thought we’d share it again. Click here to see the ...

Researchers have made a breakthrough in applying the first law of thermodynamics to complex systems, rewriting the way we ...

Nernst's theorem—a general experimental observation presented in 1905 that entropy exchanges tend to zero when the temperature tends to zero—has been directly linked to the second principle of ...

Socio-economics, natural capital and other esoteric notions prove themselves to be inadequate again and again when researchers and economists attempt to quantify the degree of sustainability. But, ...

Everyone knows baby boomers in the power sector have reached retirement age, meaning many new hires will be thrust into technical positions where fundamental information is valuable. One such area is ...