Energy and Environment: Energy Provides Existence and Is Cause for Change (hopefully Progress)
Energy is possessed (thus equilibrium property) by material systems and redistributed (transferred) between and within system(s), due to systems' non-equilibrium, via forced-displacement interactions (process) towards the equilibrium (equi-partition of energy over mass and space); thus energy is conserved (the 1st Law) but degraded (the 2nd Law). More at www.kostic.niu.edu/energy
YES, Thermodynamics, a science of energy, and the Mother of All Sciences will provide vision for the future energy solutions.