Synergy vs Exergy - What's the difference?
synergy | exergy |
Behavior of a system that cannot be predicted by the behavior of its parts.
(medicine) Combined action; the combined healthy action of every organ of a particular system; as, the digestive synergy.
(pharmacology) An interaction between drugs where the effects are stronger than their mere sum.
Benefits resulting from combining two different groups, people, objects or processes.
(physics) Concentrated or organized energy, which can be exported and do work in the process.
:::The maximum fraction of an energy form which (in a reversible process) can be transformed into work is called exergy. The remaining part is called anergy, and this corresponds to the waste heat.Honerkamp, J. ? Statistical Physics ? Springer, 2002, p. 298
:::To be useful, internal energy has to be concentrated. The more dilute or disorganized the internal energy, the less useful it is ...Newman, Jay ? Physics of the Life Sciences ? Springer, 2008, p. 336