Even emitting in IR may not mean a star per se. They say Brown Dwarf stars fuse Deuterium instead of hydrogen. Regardless, but in an EU universe even planets are connected to the circuit. Magnetic Induction is becoming quite a common use for cooking, I expect there is alot going on in the center of planets and stars to make their centers hot. Of course so far the only large planets I have seen all have gaseous atmospheres. With enough current those gases could easily glow, so i guess the EU needs to define what constitutes a star or planet. We know stars are not contained thermonuclear devises, they are much worse, a magnetically contained electrical Z-Pinch connected to lightyear (x billions, debating that now) Birkeland Currents connecting, well, everything. [link to www.thunderbolts.info]