The heart, sitting only a few inches behind an engineer’s shirt pocket protector, is an amazing organ. While often blamed for capricious love affairs, it beats steadily at the center of our circulatory system to provide life-sustaining connections between all cells in every corner of our body. Did you know that this system also models a scalable, energy-savings HVAC design, proven over centuries of use?
Studies comparing animal volume, or mass, to the amount of energy used to stay alive have revealed a startling constant. From a tiny single cell to the largest whale, living organisms use LESS energy per unit of weight as they go from small to large!