Marchetti, Cesare

Cesare Marchetti was one of the first to work intensively on the development of the primary energy mix and the determining factors and causes for the transition between primary energy sources. 

From the 1970s onwards, Cesare Marchetti and other system analysts have studied thousands of artifacts, and have discovered that their behaviour is described by the same equations that Lotka and Volterra found for the behaviour of predators and prey. The growth pattern of cars, for example, is a logistic curve. Cars spread in a market exactly as bacteria in a broth or rabbits in a prairie. Cultural novelties diffuse into a society as mutant genes in a population, and markets behave as their ecological niches. But why ... 

In the 1960s and the 1970s, when nuclear power was still untarnished and in full bloom, Cesare Marchetti and other energy strategists argued that... 

As early as 1970, Cesare Marchetti sketched (in a lecture at Cornell University) how hydrogen and certain bacteria can be a link between primary energy and the mechanism of food synthesis ... 

The first injection concept was proposed by the Italian physicist Cesare Marchetti, who thought to introduce CO2 into the outflow of the Mediterranean... 

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