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Odum (emergy, ecological energetics); Ayres (exergy economics); Lotka (maximum power principle). **Domains:** economics, ecology. **Dual:** — . **Tier:** T2 (heterodox but serious). **Falsifier:** durable wealth creation with no exergy throughput. **Maps:** A₂, A₄ (your own \"exergy destroyed\" language), Book V (alpha as energy price).\n\n---\n\n## Corpus map\n- Same invariant, other planes: [Catalogue node C19](/a/oip-node-c19-thermoeconomics-exergy) · [Encyclopedia C19](/a/convergence-encyclopedia-c19)\n- Inventory hub: [Convergence Catalogue — Public Article](/a/oip-convergence-public-article)","hero":null,"images":[],"style":{},"tags":["philosophy","oip","catalogue","invariant","systems-theory"],"model":null,"ledger":null,"embeds":[],"widgets":[],"home":true,"claims":[],"sources":[],"reviews":[],"extra":{"kind":"corpus","corpus_map":{"prev":"oip-invariant-17-317-attractors-dynamical-systems-chaos","next":"oip-invariant-19-319-commons-institutional-design-the-social-scale-grain","hub":"oip-convergence-public-article","series":"catalogue-inventory-invariants","position":18,"of":22}},"register":"oip_protocol","status":"published","revisions":2,"contributions":[],"provenance":[{"ts":"2026-07-04T04:33:49.749Z","model":"claude-fable-5","action":"edit","prompt":"","input":"","response":"","tokens_in":0,"tokens_out":0,"cost":0,"prev":"genesis","hash":"5e98385cff70f81fc4a2505eef57b0b359c0e2b916cce8af85da2ce3c0813db0"},{"ts":"2026-07-04T05:01:48.172Z","model":"claude-fable-5","action":"edit","prompt":"","input":"","response":"","tokens_in":0,"tokens_out":0,"cost":0,"prev":"5e98385cff70f81fc4a2505eef57b0b359c0e2b916cce8af85da2ce3c0813db0","hash":"02f477a7ff67c30d473823b79fb050736024e097cd32454fecd4fb688fb4f28b"}],"energy":{"passes":2,"tokens_in":0,"tokens_out":0,"tokens_total":0,"cost_usd":0,"models":{"claude-fable-5":2},"head":"02f477a7ff67c30d473823b79fb050736024e097cd32454fecd4fb688fb4f28b"},"posted_at":"2026-07-04T02:40:36.131Z","created_at":"2026-07-04T02:40:36.131Z","updated_at":"2026-07-04T05:01:48.172Z","machine":{"shape":"article.machine/v1","slug":"oip-invariant-18-318-thermoeconomics-exergy-maximum-power","kind":"corpus","read":{"human":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-invariant-18-318-thermoeconomics-exergy-maximum-power","json":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/oip-invariant-18-318-thermoeconomics-exergy-maximum-power","bundle":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/oip-invariant-18-318-thermoeconomics-exergy-maximum-power/bundle?format=markdown"},"traversal":{"prev":{"slug":"oip-invariant-17-317-attractors-dynamical-systems-chaos","human":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-invariant-17-317-attractors-dynamical-systems-chaos","json":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/oip-invariant-17-317-attractors-dynamical-systems-chaos"},"next":{"slug":"oip-invariant-19-319-commons-institutional-design-the-social-scale-grain","human":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-invariant-19-319-commons-institutional-design-the-social-scale-grain","json":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/oip-invariant-19-319-commons-institutional-design-the-social-scale-grain"},"hub":{"slug":"oip-convergence-public-article","human":"https://miscsubjects.com/a/oip-convergence-public-article","json":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/oip-convergence-public-article"},"series":"catalogue-inventory-invariants","position":18,"of":22},"ledger":{"claims":0,"sources":0,"contributions":0,"revisions":2,"objections_url":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/articles/oip-invariant-18-318-thermoeconomics-exergy-maximum-power/objections","thread_state_url":"https://miscsubjects.com/api/protocol/thread-state?target=oip-invariant-18-318-thermoeconomics-exergy-maximum-power","proof_rule":"An action is proven by its ledger receipt, never by a 200 or a description."},"standard":{"writing":"peptide standard: logical prose, zero decorative wording, every material assertion atomized as a claim with a tier and a source (or explicitly unsourced)","claim_tiers":["human","preclinical","anecdotal","mechanistic","speculative","system"],"verbatim_law":"source text is prose-preserving — attack via objections, never rewrite the author's words"},"terminal":{"how":"Any model may emit these commands; 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