FiftyTwo comments on Open thread, August 5-11, 2013 - Less Wrong
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Burn the paper to fuel a turbine. Congratulations you now have infinite free energy.
Then it turns out that Death Note smoke particles retain the magic qualities of the source. Writing one's name in dust with a fingertip becomes fraught with peril.
It may be extremely difficult to remove pages at a fast enough rate for this to be practically useful.
And you've set global warming to continue even beyond the exhaustion of fossil fuels.
The paper is white yes? If we can cover reasonably large areas of land with it it would make a pretty good reflector of solar radiation