That energy comes from foods and drinks that we consume everyday. ... The law of conservation of energy states that energy is neither created nor destroyed, in order for that to be true for example in eating we wonder where the energy goes. ... The energy that is not used is excreted not destroyed. ... The energy is being used but not destroyed, the law of conservation can be applied to mostly everyday actions that people do. We all use some source of energy and we wonder what happens to it and by the wonders of modern chemistry we can understand apply the law of conservation of energy. ...

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Experiences By the 1840's, scientists had soon realized that heat, electricity, magnetism, chemical change and the energy of motion were all "Inter-convertible." Joule was extremely involved with this work, and between 1837 and 1847, he established the principle of conservation of energy, and the equivalence of heat and other forms of energy. ... The SI unit of energy, the joule, is named in his honor. ...

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This discovery linked many things together such as heat and electricity and other forms of energy. ... As the weights fell they possessed energy. ... His finding was used to later prove the Law of energy conservation in 1850. The Law of conservation of energy, which states that energy can neither be created out of nothing nor destroyed into nothing, but that it can be changed from one form to another kinetic energy to potential energy and vise versa. ... After his death the international unit of energy was named after Joule himself, also known as the British thermal Unit. ...

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There is a "Law of Thermodynamics" also know as "Law of Conservation of Energy". ... Lester: "The two most reliable scientific laws, the first and second Laws of Thermodynamics, prove that conservation and deterioration are the processes that characterize and direct the physical universe. ... The total quantity of energy in the universe is a constant, but the quantity of available energy is decreasing. Therefore, as we go backward in time, the available energy would have been progressively greater until, finally, we would reach the beginning point, where available energy equaled total energy. ...

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