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If listers would stop reifying energy -- with the excuse that it
simplifies the discussion -- we would recognize that the discussion
usually gets muddied when we do.
Energy is not a fluid!!! It is not "transferred" etc etc. The
intensity of the property of energy can only be changed by DOING WORK!!!
If we do work on one system we must also do work on a mating system.
This is the reason we get into the "transfer" problem.
This is the clearest, simplest way to teach the youngens -- If only we
could loose the Bill Nye teachings imbedded in us.
And I am still looking to hear of a system which has the property of
energy which can not do work.