"tadchem" <tadchem@comcast.net> wrote in message 
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| Sorcerer wrote:
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| > Steam is not an energy source.
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| Excellent point.
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| > The energy source is the fossil fuel that heats steam (chemical)
| > or the nuclear "fuel" in the reactor. Ultimately all energy sources
| > are from the sun or stars.
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| Which in turn convert gravitational potential energy into more
| high-density forms of energy in the form of heavy nuclei.

If your big bang were correct there would be no new stars
formed -- but this beyond my reply to Herbie, who isn't all that
bright.