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>Comment:  Have you bothered to calculate how much energy would be
>released by having the ash mineral of 10 grams of seeds absorb enough
>light atoms from the air to gain a few % in mass?  Suppose of 10 grams,
>1200 mg is ash, of which 800 mg is metals.  Suppose this gains 2% in
>mass, due to absorption of 16 mg of oxygen from the air.  We want to
>know how much energy is released when (say) 16 mg of oxygen-16 combines
>with 24 mg of magnesium-24 to make 40 mg of calcium-40.  That leaves
>you with 0.01736 mg of matter (back of envelope subtraction) to convert
>to energy, over 3 or 4 weeks, call it 3e6 sec.  I have mislaid my
>calculator, but 1.7e-5 g = 1.7e-8 kg.  Multiply by c^2 = 9e16 (m/sec)^2
>gives 1.5e9 J.  Divide by 3e6 sec to get 500 watts, continuous.  Those
>are some hot seeds, man, unless we toss conservation of energy.


Hey, if Star Trek can toss the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to make
their transporters work, why can't we toss conservation of energy?