I agree with your objection, but if it were in all unlikelihood true, maybe the universe would compensate for the energy imbalance in some new way (exploding or

I agree with your objection, but if it were in all unlikelihood true, maybe the universe would compensate for the energy imbalance in some new way (exploding or melting the source, refusing to go faster than input power dictates, just polarizing the electrons in place, etc) that itself could be useful somehow.