Gene Fuller wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote:
Lots of energy is flowing in both directions.
Only the *NET* energy flow is zero.

I guess you still have not gone back to the books to try to understand
what electromagnetic energy is all about. A good review of the Poynting
theorem would help to minimize the sort of nonsense you spouted above.

You mean like Ramo & Whinnery in "Fields and Waves ..."
2nd edition, page 291? (begin quote)

In such problems we are often most interested in the ratio
of power in the reflected wave to that in the incident wave,
and this ratio is given by the square of the magnitude of
[rho], as can be shown by considering the Poynting vectors:

Pz-/Pz+ = |rho|^2

end quote.

Pz+ is the forward power Poynting vector. Pz- is the reflected
power Poynting vector. The *NET* Poynting vector is the
difference between those two Poynting vectors.

If Pz+ = Pz-, then the net Poynting vector is zero but
the component Poynting vectors still exist. If you disagree,
please take it up with Ramo & Whinnery.
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com