The Exergy Imperative
Copyright 2026 Exergy Lab

The explanatory guide and bundled reference profiles are available under
CC BY 4.0 as described in DOCUMENTATION_LICENSE.md.

Some carrier conventions and interoperability patterns are derived from the
MIT-licensed Quantity and Quality project by Exergy Lab:
https://github.com/cdimurro/quantity-and-quality

XAI4Heat is referenced as an external CC BY 4.0 dataset and is not bundled in
this distribution:
https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/2mwc6x6kwb/1

The bundled country electricity-intensity history is derived from the Our
World in Data Energy dataset's publication of Ember Yearly Electricity Data.
Retain attribution to both Ember and Our World in Data. Ember data is provided
under CC BY 4.0:
https://ember-energy.org/data/yearly-electricity-data/
https://github.com/owid/energy-data

Greenhouse-gas warming potentials and Tier 1 combustion factors reproduce
numerical reference values from IPCC assessment and inventory materials.
Health-screening descriptions are concise adaptations of public US EPA and
European Environment Agency materials. Source URLs and version identifiers
are retained in the packaged factor registry.

Industrial steam, compressed-air, process-heating, and waste-heat screening
methods cite public US Department of Energy sourcebooks. The bundled radiative
reference case cites Petela (2003), "Exergy of undiluted thermal radiation,"
doi:10.1016/S0038-092X(03)00226-3.

Example local-file adapters name Energy Institute and IEA workbooks solely to
describe user-controlled field mappings. They contain no publisher data and do
not grant any right to download, transform, redistribute, or publish derived
data. Users must comply with the terms applicable to their own copies.

Optional connector configurations reference World Bank World Development
Indicators, Copernicus/ECMWF ERA5-Land, EC-JRC EDGAR, US EPA eGRID, the US DOE
ITAC/IAC database, and the Foundational Industry Energy Dataset. No values from
those sources are bundled by these connectors. Users must retain the selected
release's attribution, review its source and upstream terms, and comply with
the conditions applicable to their own downloaded files and derived outputs.
