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Chemical binding energy.

When oxygen combines with hydrogen to form water, it gives off energy equivalent to the change in mass (water molecules are oh-so-slightly less massive than their constitute oxygen and hydrogen atoms). A battery produces power by converting molecules into different molecules with more binding energy (i.e. lighter molecules that have given up more energy/mass).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_energy

When you do all the math, photons have mass/momentum etc. which all keeps everything copacetic.




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