Energy Into Other Matters

I've been thinking about Captain Marvel #7, a lot of different things. So let's take it one thing at a time.

Frank Gianelli's trying to get Monica Rambeau to do something about the state of the levees. Monica - who is a little preoccupied with the missing ships and boats - points out she can't just magic up concrete and steel for the levees. Depending on who's writing him, she might be right about Dr. Strange being able to manage it, but that's not what I'm really interested in. There'd be all sorts of issues about what would happen if he did just create something like that out of thin air, anyway, I'm sure.

Isn't there the possibility Monica could create concrete and steel, though? She converts her body from solid matter to energy. and back again. Given the power levels she demonstrates, she would seem to have a lot more energy in her than your average person. Which makes a certain amount of sense. I was looking at her Marvel Wiki entry, and it says her powers came from being bombarded with extra-dimensional energies, from a machine designed to tap into energy sources from other dimensions. It could be she's still tapping into that other-dimension for power, not unlike what Carol did with the "white hole" power sources that made her Binary.

It would seem like Monica has access to sufficient energy, at least for a starting point. Normally, she uses that energy to simply reform her own physical form. But we know she can project the energy away from herself, since she's blasting people with it all the time. The trick would be to project in a controlled manner (which she clearly knows how to do), then try to reform it into matter that isn't her. That would be really tricky, since I don't even know how exactly one goes about it. My guess is to solidify herself, Monica just pictures herself and it happens. The Silver Surfer does it, or Firestorm if you don't mind switching universes, but I'm not totally sure how. I imagine they know the composition of what it is they're trying to make, and they picture that.

Now the Surfer was a scientist in a pretty advanced society once upon a time (and he may be centuries old, depending on who's writing him), and Ronnie Raymond, at least at the start, had an actual scientist inside his head for guidance. But Monica's no idiot, and in the case of the levees, we aren't discussing doing this under fire. She could research what she needed to make ahead of time, then take her time in doing it.