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Some Technical Steps Towards Sustainability

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As has already been mentioned in the first two chapters, the filling of the temperature sink is fortunately not a global problem even when very large quantities of anthropogenic energy are being produced. The Earth’s radiation balance can be written as

$$ \left( {1 - A} \right){S_0}/4 = \varepsilon \sigma T_E^4 $$
(6.1)

where the left hand side is the solar influx in the form of visible light with S o = 1.372 kW/m2 = solar constant and A = 0.3 = albedo of the Earth.

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    Prof. Dr. Bruno Fritsch

  2. Postfach 1474, CH-8640, Hurden, Switzerland

    Dr. Stephan Schmidheiny

  3. Chapfstr. 4, CH-5200, Windisch, Switzerland

    Prof. Dr. Walter Seifritz

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Fritsch, B., Schmidheiny, S., Seifritz, W. (1994). Some Technical Steps Towards Sustainability. In: Towards an Ecologically Sustainable Growth Society. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78742-3_6

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