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with money, everything is assessed in a single unit of measure and it has an aggre-
gation/dissagregation capacity. It is therefore perfectly suitable for use in global
assessments. If exergy is the unit of measure, the methodology used for abiotic
resource accounting is framed under the novel discipline Thermoeconomics. The
latter makes use of the Input/Output structure commonly applied in Economics for
obtaining the physical costs of systems.
An explanation of the fundamentals of exergy and thermoeconomic analysis and
how these can be used for assessing the mineral endowment on Earth is the aim of
the next chapter.
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