Living in the Environment 18th Edition by Tyler Miller,Scott Spoolman

تمرين 11

Use the second law of thermodynamics (see Chapter 2, p. 43) to analyze the scientific and economic feasibility of each of the following processes:
a. Extracting certain minerals from seawater
b. Mining increasingly lower-grade deposits of minerals
c. Continuing to mine, use, and recycle minerals at increasing rates