# Energy can't be created or destroyed

Explain the principle of conservation of energy (energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transferred between stores), and describe how energy is dissipated as thermal energy to the surroundings in all real processes

Builds on: Naming types of energy (hard, https://ai.page/c/naming-types-of-energy/en.md), Energy stores and transfers (hard, https://ai.page/c/energy-stores-and-transfers/en.md)

Concept id: energy-can-t-be-created-or-destroyed. Subject: science. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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