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| So where does the energy come from? Helium is lighter than 4 hydrogens by 0.7%, and that difference in mass is turned into pure energy according to Einstein's famous equation, E=mc2. So the light that the sun sends us which plants absorb and which we ultimately eat, used to be the mass of the sun itself. | |||||||||
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