The Maximum Power Principle

<p>Energy is a precondition for organisms to compete. Organisms that optimize the rate/speed and efficiency of available energy are selected for. As H.T. Odum later noted, under conditions of scarcity, tending towards higher efficiency works and abundance selects for increasing the rate of use, but always it is a balance between efficiency and speed.</p> <p>Getting both just right for current conditions is what works, is what maximizes power (usable energy/time). This principle (MPP or Maximum Power Principle, or MEPP, Maximum Embodied Power (eMpower) Principle) is what works in open thermodynamic systems. Odum proposed it as the fourth law of energetics (open system thermodynamics, the first to third laws are better known as the laws of thermodynamics).</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@alysion42/the-maximum-power-principle-483a0b7813ed"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>