Time's Speed Regulator: The Optimum Efficiency for Maximum Power Output in Physical and Biological Systems by Howard T. Odum and Richard C. Pinkerton |
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This is, I believe, the seminal paper in which Odum and Pinkerton first formulated an argument in support of the "Maximum Power Principle", the mechanism that drives all modern economies to become sophisticated machines for processing mass and energy.
Garvin H Boyle
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| Title | Time's Speed Regulator: The Optimum Efficiency for Maximum Power Output in Physical and Biological Systems by Howard T. Odum and Richard C. Pinkerton Bobbs-Merrill Reprint Series in the Life Sciences, B234 |
| Authors | Howard Thomas Odum, Richard C. Pinkerton |
| Published | 1955 |
| Length | 13 pages |
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