No edit summary |
|||
| Line 38: | Line 38: | ||
*find a nice exhibition space to showcase the finished work in March | *find a nice exhibition space to showcase the finished work in March | ||
<br> | <br> | ||
== Fundamentals of Ecology== | |||
* First law of thermodynamics: Energy may be transformed from one type into another but is never created or destroyed. | |||
* Second law of thermodynamics: No progress involving an energy transformation will spontaneously occur unless there is a degradation of the energy from a concentrated form into dispersed form. | |||
* One example regarding one single being: A being takes in chemical potential energy of food and converts a large part into heat to enable a small part of the energy to be reestablished as the chemical potential energy of new protoplasm<sup>1</sup>. | |||
* First, one has to consider the total amount of energy within an ecosystem and then think of the smaller amounts that flow through an organism. | |||
==readings:== | ==readings:== | ||
"the limits to growth"- Club of Rome<br> | "the limits to growth"- Club of Rome<br> | ||
"Fundamentals of Ecology" - Eugene P. Odum ('''Especially Chapter 3''') | "Fundamentals of Ecology" - Eugene P. Odum ('''Especially Chapter 3''') | ||
==Explanations and other sources/information== | |||
<sup>1</sup>[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protoplasma Protoplasma (wikipedia)] <br> | |||
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_J._Lotka Alfred J. Lotka]<br> | |||
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Schr%C3%B6dinger Erwin Schrödinger]<br> | |||