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Water -- a desalinization plant allows you to convert energy into water.

Air -- we can bottle as much pure air as we want with energy.

Food -- yes, it takes energy to make food, whether it is grown in the grown or fed food that was grown or completely artificial.

Human organs and blood -- this is a resource separate from energy, but only because of medical ethics. If it wasn't unethical to grow/create people for transplantation/transfusion purposes, we could convert energy to medical resources. This will hopefully become practical overtime, when science allows us to clone organs without making a whole human.



I didn't dispute any of that.




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