Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160528034745/@comment-24534644-20160529212516

Something providing energy, and something being energy, are two different things. For example, a common misconception is that Fire itself is a type of energy. This is false. The heat that fire gives off is a form of energy, but the fire itself is not. I know it's hard to differentiate the two, but that's how it is. Water and wind are both capable of providing electric energy, given the right technology and circumstances, but that does not make them energy in themselves.

(I honestly don't know how sound energy works, I just know it's a thing. Couldn't tell you about the rock concert, but I imagine that if sound energy could be converted to electricity, humanity would be way better off. I think there was a movie about that once, set in a future where humanity learned how to convert sound into household energy, and as a result our entire culture being subsumed by music.)