Energy Basics

When we’re talking about energy or energy infrastructure, we’re usually talking about either a) moving energy around, b) changing the form it takes, or c) storing it while we wait to do A or B.
Brian Potter • Energy Cheat Sheet


energy exists in various forms, and to make it useful to us we need to convert one form of it into another type. But treating this multifaceted abstract as a monolith has been the norm, as if different forms of energy were effortlessly substitutable.