[itsahoot]

Blow against the side of your house with the same force. The wall does not move. How much work are you doing to the wall?

Exactly the same amount of energy is bring expended it just isn't accomplishing anything sort of like this discussion.

[TexasGator]

“Exactly the same amount of energy is bring expended it just isn’t accomplishing anything sort of like this discussion. “

In both cases the object doesn’t move. You have done no work on the object.