Stephen
So, you don't really need to look for subtle "chi energy"
changes to
find what may be significant differences between microwave and
stovetop
boiling.
You probably already surmised that the "chi" part was partly
tongue-in-chi-eek...
...yet... there is always the remote possibility that
"unfathomables" such as "chi" of "orgone" <g> have some small
grounding in physical reality (or "non-physical reality" if you
consider 4-space as nonphysical).
For instance, even without subscribing to the details of Mills'
hydrino theory - it is conceivable (but not likely) that an easily
hidden species of "redundant ground state" hydrogen is being
continuously created in the solar corona over geologic time - and
makes its way to earth in the solar wind - and then accumulates in
earth's oceans in parts per billion quantities....
I totally discount the de-gasification explanation, since my
plants grow quite well in chlorinated water, and if anything
dissolved CO2 would help, not hurt. I also discount leached
minerals, since the mineral content of soil is many time higher
than what could possible be in the water.
... as I said in the original post..."often mainstream physics can
only guess at the answer."