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'More than ten times' is just an expression of quantity and not a comparator. The comparator is actually the positive degree
‘as much’. Now when the un-underlined portion contains ‘as much’ for the comparison, then you must idiomatically complete the comparison with another ‘
as’. This means, we have to stay put with choices B, C and D, dropping A and E.
2.We must not misconstrue that the pronoun ‘it’ stands for just energy, The pronoun stands for the entire antecedent that goes to describe the energy namely ‘
more than ten times as much energy’; Therefore the use of the pronoun ‘
it’ doesn’t make much structural sense. We have to drop choices B and D on that count. We must admit C as the most fitting, though a bit unusual to the ears.
Incidentally a colon is no more than a kind of parenthesis. The things that follow the colon must represent the idea that is expressed prior to the colon, in this case ‘
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