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kalium comments on Yet More "Stupid" Questions - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: kalium 08 September 2013 07:39:05PM 2 points [-]

Say Earth was positively charged, and you converted negatively charged mass to energy, and back

Electric charge is conserved, so you can't convert only negatively charged matter to energy. You'd need some positively charged matter as well (ideally the corresponding antimatter).