When I turn on my warp drive, where does the energy go?

I've just bought myself a shiny new spaceship equipped with the latest in FTL warp technology, the only catch is the fuel bill, this thing drinks the stuff like it's going out of fashion (still, it's better than the F150 but that's another story).

Now I'm just a humble space-cabbie but, my understanding of warp drives is that they just, well... warp the space around the ship. But then, if space-school physics taught me anything, it's that so does the Earth and the Earth doesn't need refueling every 38Â¼ parsecs so... where's all that energy going? I'm pretty sure you can't just burn a couple kilos of antimatter without also turning the inside of the ship into one heck of an oven... so what's going on?

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