Thermoeconomics: a holistic approach to technical development

The present days represent a crossroad in the history of humanity, and of the whole Earth. Complex dynamics both of growing the poverty distribution, and of increasing of ecological environmental and socio-economic degradation, are generating a difficult socio-economic system of despair from which it is very difficult to escape. Engineering and technological improvements can represent new possibilities for the renewal of the world, but a new indicator for the decision makers is required. The result, THDI, improves the usual HDI, by taking into account also the technical and ecological level by using the CO2 emissions and the sg quantities, related to the irreversibility of a process.