Environmental thermodynamic limitations on global human population

International Journal of Global Energy Issues

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 129-140

  Badescu, Viorel ^a   Cathcart, Richard B ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^b Geographos   (United States)

^c American Gpciety of Macro Engineering (TASME)   (United States)

Author keywords

Macro engineering; Maximum earth human population; Thermal environment

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); HEAT PUMP SYSTEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SOLAR ENERGY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

MACRO-ENGINEERING; MAXIMUM EARTH HUMAN POPULATION; THERMAL ENVIRONMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING;

THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTY;

EID: 31344476737     PISSN: 09547118     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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