Re: What Flows?

[palmer@sfu.ca (Leigh Palmer)]

I said:

> Since energy is a locally conserved quantity it can be modelled
> by a continuity equation. Referring to "energy flow" is no more
> reprehensible than calling both light and tsunamis "waves". They
> share important formal similarities, that's all.

I should have pointed out that energy is locally conserved on a
macroscopic scale only. That is that appropriate meaning of the
term in classical thermodynamics.

Leigh