Entropy: Quantitative Measure Of Disorder

Why is entropy often described as the “quantitative measure of disorder” (Michaelides)? Is it really disorder? Or is it simply the way nature is intended to work? The explanation, according to most common folk remains that entropy is the measure of how much disorder exists in a specific system. This however, is not actually factual. People often equate entropy with murphy’s law. Believing that everything that can go wrong, will go wrong and that order will always become disorder over time (“Entropy: The Ultimate”). In the case of true entropy, what actually occurs is the following. In closed system, entropy will always tend to be maximized. To reverse the natural process of entropy, energy must be added to the system (“Entropy Is Not”). This

To describe the long term implications of the Carbon Cycle, one must understand the cycle of life. For an organism to be created it must use up resources that are the basis for its survival. Carbon is one of the most crucial resources that is needed for life to survive. When an organism is created it uses up a specific set of resources, which include energy and carbon. The organism then grows and survives continually using up resources, which lower the available energy surrounding it, but increase the potential energy that it contains. When the organism finally reaches the end of its life cycle it begins to degrade, releasing all of its resources back into the environment (Kleidon, 2010). Carbon being one of its building blocks is released back into the environment. The carbon is then available once again for another organism or life cycle to use. This is the basis for the Carbon Cycle, there is a set amount of carbon available, thus when an organism uses it, it must be returned to the environment through life processes which are a result of entropy leading to a maximum point. The Water Cycle works in the exact same manor; however, it is not only used by organisms. Water, along with Carbon is crucial to the biotic and abiotic environments on Earth. The Water Cycle employed natural environmental

The reason is we have begun to harness the power of entropy convert into useable forms that we can power our society with. The power of the sun, water, and wind are three natural entropic phenomena on Earth that humans have been able to harness. The negative entropic effects of the Sun on Earth prior to the invention of solar panels was only useful to plant life and not to humans. After the implementation of solar energy production plants, humans were able to harness the negative entropy that was being dissipated into the environment and use it as a source of energy to undo harm that other entropic processes were creating (“Entropy, Disorder”). The implementation of wind farms and hydroelectric dams applies the same principles. Using the potential energy that is always available and converting it into something that is useful to humans. Harnessing the otherwise wasted entropy of Earths natural processes is one of the great achievements in understanding the overall limit of the energy available to us on Earth. Renewable energy sources are not actually renewable, they are simply harnessing wasted potential energy and employing it to create useable energy. This allows the entropy of earth to remain within tolerable levels because it aids the natural processes that regulate