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** [[Antimatter]] is pretty much impossible to contain in real life. You'd be hard pressed to find a less portable energy source.
* Lampshaded in ''[[Firestarter]]''. After a government experiment in which Charlie McGee vaporizes a cinderblock wall with her pyrokinetic powers, the next chapter is an Interdepartmental Memo in which one of the evil government scientists points out to the head evil government scientist that, despite producing 30,000 degrees of spot heat, the nine-year-old girl in question burned about as many calories as if she were reading a good book—leading the seriously weirded-out scientist to wonder just where the hell the energy is coming from (and to start thinking about stuff like black holes and things we breathe a sigh of relief that we can only observe from millions of light-years away and pretty much wondering if this little girl is some kind of rift in the very fabric of the Universe). The last lines of one of penultimate chapters suggest that she might be tapping into the Sun for her power, and that she might one day be able do more than just draw on it.
* [[Alan Dean Foster]]'s ''[[Humanx Commonwealth]]'' series has a brain-bending use of this trope in its mechanism for [[FTL Travel]], which involves generating a small black hole in front of your ship and letting it "pull" you along until it evaporates, at which point you generate a new black hole, and so on. The first novel in which it's introduced even [[
* Moorcock's series ''The Dancers At The End Of Time'' averts it: one million years in the future the advanced technology of mankind has turned the remaining members of our species into undying [[Reality Warper|Reality Warping]] [[Physical God]]s. Except that this technology cost so much energy that the Degenerate Era (an era that should comes by 100 ''trillion'' years from now) has already began: in other words, by achieving godhood, mankind has divided by ''one hundred million'' the lifetime of the universe. {{spoiler|of course, since it happens in Moorcock's Multiverse, one man eventually realizes that with an infinity of universes, there is an endless pool of energy to draw from, which allows the dancers to flip one off Thermodynamics by the end of the story.}}
* Averted in regards to conservation of mass in the ''[[Deverry]]'' novels. The mazrakir (shapeshifters) all change into an animal form the same size as their normal form. Nevyn pokes fun at the old 'sorcerers turning people into frogs' story by pointing out the stories never mention that the frogs would have to be big enough to ride.
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