On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 05:04:59 GMT, Rich The Philosophizer
wrote:

Well, yeah, except that it's so simple to "explain away" by just
saying that you're not paying for the electrons themselves that
are just passing through, but the energy required to get them
to do that passage.

Big deal. All they've got to do is pull some carbon rods out of a pile
of radio-active crap and the job's done. How hard can that be?
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"What is now proved was once only imagin'd." - William Blake, 1793.