[Right Wing Professor]

Does the Second Law apply to open systems?

Of course.

Does the Second Law tell about the direction of processes?

Of course.

Does the availabiltiy of energy ensure that order can increase within an open system?

What kind of energy? Heat emitted at a high temperature? If you knew any thermo. at all, you'd know that mere energy means nothing in the context of the second law. Try G or A.

[nasamn777]

What kind of energy? Heat emitted at a high temperature? If you knew any thermo. at all, you'd know that mere energy means nothing in the context of the second law. Try G or A.

Certainly, you know that if you have a gas in a container and you add heat to the gas then the entropy will rise! So energy does have a relation to entropy. In fact, the heat energy flowing through a surface divided by the absolute temperature gives you the entropy! Most all forms of energy (if not all) ultimately dissipate as heat energy. I am neglecting the energy associated with the chemical bonding, but oftentimes even the bonding energy will later be liberated and dissipate as heat.

Does the availability of energy ensure that order can increase within an open system?

The answer to this last question is NO as you very well know.