Re: energy in the tank

["John S. Denker" <jsd@MONMOUTH.COM>]

Jon Greenberg wrote:
...
> As a former biology teacher, I'll freely admit that we are probably the main
> culprits in this story. ("High energy ATP" and all that). The mixed-up story
> of reaction thermo presented in most bio classes is conceptually appealing
> to the chemically naive because it makes intuitive sense and is simpler than
> the story we've been discussing here. Unfortunately, it happens to be wrong.

I still haven't seen any physics-based grounds
for objecting if someone wants to speak of
"high-energy ATP".

This sounds to me like political correctness,
not physics.  Sneering at "high-energy ATP"
seems as pointless as declaring war on those
who open their eggs on the wrong end.

http://www.online-literature.com/swift/gulliver/5/

If I'm being naive, please enlighten me.
Please give an example of a logical contradiction
and/or an experimental result that is incompatible
with measuring energy in such a way that ATP has
high energy.  (Politically-correct fashion statements
are not requested.)