Keith Dysart wrote:
It was such a good example that it just stopped you in
your tracks.

Not at all. Everything I have said applies to a
distributed network. Since you insist on using a
lumped circuit source in a distributed network
example, further discussion is futile because
you are mixing apples and oranges.

What you perceive as the source absorbing energy is
the reverse traveling wave energy flowing back through
the source unimpeded. After all, how much energy can
be absorbed by 0+j0 ohms? The illusion of energy
absorption is the direct result of you refusing to
deal with the component wave energies.
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com