Converting raw energy into biological energy

Just as a point of information, Leslie Orgel isn't a woman.For my tuppence worth, chirality is an important point but it is not the case that any prebiotic synthesis must yield a racemic product. Looking in the literature you will find many discussions and analyses of chiral symmetry breaking processes. I'm not sure why Orgel makes such a sweeping blanket statement since some of the work that prebiotic symmetry breaking hypotheses are based on, particularly the Frank chiral amplification model, have been around for some decades.TTFN,WK

Frank's model was yes, but the subsequent experimental work on chiral amplification has not been purely theoretical, particularly the experimental work of Soai (2001) although these didn't involve amino acids or nucleic acids.TTFN,WK