Entropie eines Eiswürfels, Wahrscheinlichkeitsaussagen und Meeresspiegelerhöhung

Material flows and energy flows can be correlated with sufficient data, e.g. on production energies, annual production quantities and degrees of dissipation with temperature increases in the atmosphere, volumes of molten ice or sea level increases, as well as with probability statements, information densities and management recommendations. All these quantities can be described by the comprehensive term entropy. In order to consider the efficiency of material and energy flows, the difficulty to understand the concept of entropy with its different definitions can be summarized simply and easily in a model related to ice cubes. The quality of a model containing percentage probability statements, statements on dissipation in material flow models in connection with statements on information density and its description by the ice cube model is still to be determined in practice in suitable material flow models. Such projects should show the types of mathematical correlations between dissipation degrees, entropy increase, increase of molten ice and sea level rise.