User blog comment:BlackTempest/So, energy weapons?/@comment-15108745-20130817220106/@comment-15108745-20130818151142

@ BenRG

How does manipulating electromagnetic fields summon clouds?

Okay well, if we want to truly look at things scientifically, I don't think the term energy weapon means what we think it means. Technically any and every weapon is an energy weapon because every weapon uses some kind of energy. Even a sword uses energy (kinetic energy). Bullets use potential energy of gunpowder. Radiation would probably be what laser guns (electromagnetic radiation) and death rays fall under and those also classify as energy weapons since electromagnetic radiation is considered a form of energy.

I think whenever we're talking about a scifi/fantasy world like RWBY and say the word "energy weapon", I think we mean something that shoots out something as long as it's not a physical projectile (like a bullet). Using that definition of energy weapons, I think Glynda's beams count since she doesn't seem to be flinging physical objects at the aircraft.