Efficiency is generally a good thing. We don’t want our car engines to waste fuel through internal friction or the heat from our furnaces to slip out the window.
Yet there are limits to efficiency’s virtue. It’s no good having a lightweight super-efficient engine that melts when it heats up or clatters into pieces on a bumpy road. For any technology, too much efficiency can compromise properties that are required for stability. And stability matters, too.
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