Power, Work and Dissipation

by D. R. Tilley

Energy, energy everywhere
From the Sun fast it comes
Absorbed by waters, embodied it goes
to build the forest and soils below
Farms and Cities and Industry too
like to use it, vastly its true
At every step, dis-si-pated
into heat that is degraded
Done with Earth, radiated it is
At 300 Kelvin, is it done with its biz?