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Does anyone know the energy cost in ATP & NADP of returning the CO2 to the carbon-fixing cycle (in peroxisomes after the Calvin cycle "misfires" by picking up an O2 instead of CO2 and produces the 2-carbon phosphoglycolate)? I.E. What exactly is the inefficiency of photorespiration?