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Energy is work. It exists in all matter and is what makes everything move, grow, heat up, change phase, even light is energy.

Energy can neither be created nor destroyed. The use and existence of energy is what is making everything happen around you. Take for instance an ice cube. The ice has both potential (stored) energy and kinetic energy. Heat from other energy sources is melting the ice which is then releasing its stored energy to form water. The water is also evaporating at some point to form vapor. All of the phase changes are transfers of energy from the air into the ice or water. The ice has low energy and as more energy is absorbed it melts and then vaporizes. Water vapor has higher energy than ice through this process (which is known as convection). If you continue to add heat (energy) to the vapor it will become steam which has so much energy, it has been used for more than two centuries to drive turbines. When the steam hits the blades of the turbine it causes them to turn, there-by transferring its energy to the turbine and the steam becomes "weaker" or lower energy.

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