ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author proposes, first, to explain in broad terms the technical reasons why the energetic dogma is wrong, why matter matters, too. Second, he uses the analytical representation of a multi-process for discussing the general problem of energy analysis. On this basis, the author shows where the recent claims that energy analysis is the rational basis for economic valuation go wrong. Economists still refuse to see the indissoluble relationship between the scarcity of natural resources and the economic process as a whole. The author’s position is that the perpetual motion is impossible, by analogy with the negation of the other two perpetual motions by the first and second thermodynamic laws people may regard this impossibility as a fourth law of thermodynamics. Planck suggested that in the case of it would be more to the point to speak of a dissipation of matter than of a dissipation of energy.
