Those Trillions of EVOs inside those two foot spherical reaction balls eat carbon at a prodigious rate.
Did you count them? Or calculate them mathematically?
I remember I was at a lecture at Cornell by Carl Sagan. He made a comment about "BILLions" of something. The audience laughed. Sagan stopped and to paraphrase, said some like "BILLions of stars. BILLions of galaxies. For my next book, I think I am going to start honing the word TRILLions". Axil must be a mathematically challenged version of Sagan.