Chapter 10: Thanatia and the Crepuscular Earth Model

The following sections are included:

• Introduction

• Thanatia: the baseline for the exergy assessment of mineral resources

  • Entropic versus commercial death of the planet

  • Thanatia compared with Gaia and Medea

• The Crepuscular Earth Model

  • The crepuscular atmosphere

  • The crepuscular hydrosphere

  • The crepuscular continental crust

• The difference between Thanatia and the reference environment

• Summary of the chapter