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Your aunt is sipping on iced tea and fanning herself during a hot South Carolina summer day. You tell her that there is enough energy in one drop of her iced tea to run the air conditioner for the rest of her life if the energy could be extracted with 100% efficiency. Your aunt asks you to explain. Use the concepts you learned in this unit to explain the relationship between forces, energy, and matter.

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Isn't this like having enough energy to supply the world for centuries with just 1% of the sea's force?

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I guess it's because the amount of energy in it can supply energy.

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