If the ecologist Howard T. Odum was right, the principles of energetics take into consideration a hierarchical ordering of energy forms, which aims to account for the concept of energy quality, and the evolution of the universe.
Ako je ekolog Howard T. Odum bio u pravu, onda načela energetike uzimaju u obzir hijerarhijski poredak oblika energije, koncept kvalitete energije i evoluciju svemira.