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EMERGY SYNTHESIS TABLES
The emergy evaluation procedure is called “Emergy Synthesis” instead
of “analysis”, since synthesis is the act of combining elements into
coherent wholes. Rather than dissect and break apart systems and build
understanding from the pieces upward, emergy synthesis strives for
understanding by grasping the wholeness of systems. Emergy synthesis
makes possible scientific-based decisions on environmental and
economic alternatives.
Emergy evaluations of energy resources, transformation processes, and
regional systems use a unit of measure called EMERGY, and involve
calculation of all energy and material flows in and out of the system
studied. These calculations are stored in spreadsheet format, with
extensive notes on sources and methods for calculation. Three
“standard” synthesis tables are provided as templates that may be
changed to reflect the particular inflows and outflows for the system
being evaluated.
Emergy evaluation template of a NATION
(unzipped Excel spreadsheet of USA)
Emergy evaluation template of AGRICULTURE
Production (unzipped Excel spreadsheet of Citrus)
Emergy evaluation template of URBAN
Land Use (unzipped Excel spreadsheet of residential housing)
Links to sites with DATA needed for EMERGY ANALYSIS
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