¶ Cosmic Accounting Sequence (1)
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RBF Definitions
"What we’ll be talking about, I’m sure, will look… almost too much. But it isn’t so, because if there’s anybody who ought to be able to think about much, it’s you. You’ve had just that kind of experience.
"And I’ve really been working on what I’m going to talk about for almost a half-century-- 47 years now. And I’ve been really quite confident that humanity would gradually get around to what I call cosmic costing-- getting real on to the energy balances of Universe. If you get into, in a very big way, how you really handle your energies from here to there: Have you ever really studied the engineer’s way of designing refineries? How much energy they keep investing in this column, and so forth, and the energy recoveries? Really very fascinating.
“Now what I’d really like to talk about here is what I call metabolic accounting. In other words, Universe really working in energy-- and how much she has invested. She’s associating and disassociating. And as far as physics can find out, we are dealing in a Universe that is eternally regenerative. That is, there is no evidence of energy either being created or being lost. And an eternally regenerative system is quite a system.”
¶ Citations
- Cite RBF to Harvey Kapnick, Chmn, Arthur Anderson & Co., New York, NY, 13 Mar’74
