Nice to see these ideas out there.

You forget one of the most significant biomimicries... any counter current system.

I'm not sure if it's correct to call "Constructal Theory" the inverse of biomimicry.

If anyone bothers to follow the links, they will see some criticism of "Constructal Theory" along the lines of mutton dressed as lamb. There is some truth in this, but if it were all so obvious and easily derivable from first principles... why are "we" so "bad" at it?

I think it would be better termed formalised biomimicry.

Natural systems simply "seek" the most "efficient" method of transforming energy or material flow, via evolution within the constraints of other processes. We mimic this now with genetic algorithms.

In some respects you could argue that human engineering is constrained by the necessity to incorporate fiscal considerations. To be clear, money is not a natural system. It's "value" is subject to the whims and desires of the not always rational members of the human species.

Thus, while energy is cheap monetarily, we make foolish long term energy investment decisions.

I think some of this comes about due to the reduction of complex arguments to some kind of dualism.
Perfect- imperfect, efficient - inefficient. But what do these terms mean?

Maybe we re-define how we use MONEY, rather than just use it to gain more power in our Human Systems.

Going back to a barter or trade for what we need in the production systems. I was recently reminded that Back some years ago when we had the depression in the USA/world, that Things like trading for food for goods, or services was the token of our trading system.

I was kinda of reminded this more when a Bible Verse was mentioned, Loving the Lord or Loving Money.

But I sponsor Eat your yard growing systems and like to trade this or that skill for other things not Money.
I pulled a very nice older Platform rocker out of a neightbors trash and helped fix it and gave it away to someone that needed it in another part of my city just this weekend.

Nothing is going to be easy if we are going to power down to the simplest levels of the "Natural" World. Everything being sort of relative to everything else. We are kinda slower to Evolve than the rest of Nature that way.

Charles.