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64: The Universal Currency: Energy and Civilization by Vaclav Smil

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Is There a Difference Between a Sprinter and a Marathon Runner?

There's also got to be an element here of surface area to weight ratio. And so if you're really overweight, you have a much higher mass and volume for not much more surface area. That means your body can create a lot more heat because there's just like more of you. You don't have as much space to dissipate that heat through sweating. If you're really lean,you have a greater surface area to dissipate the heat through through sweating. But I guess like a sprinter versus a marathon runners physique are very, very different.

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