Technological efficiency improvements: Beyond the prospects of first-law efficiencies

International Journal of Environment and Pollution

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 287-293

  Frondel, Manuel ^a   Rübbelke, Dirk ^b  

^a CENTRE FOR EUROPEAN ECONOMIC RESEARCH ZEW   (Germany)

^b CHEMNITZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Entropy; Technological efficiency

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; ENERGY CONVERSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENTROPY;

TECHNOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 0036447338     PISSN: 09574352     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJEP.2002.000711     Document Type: Article

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