Energy and Need

Energy

Energy noun - A spiritual force that is held to emanate from or give animation to living beings.

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Need and energy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Need" instead a noun "Energy".

Need noun - A state of being without something necessary, desirable, or useful.

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Energy and need are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Energy" instead a noun "Need".

Nearby Words: needed, needs, needy, needless, needful

emotional	emotional energy	emotional need
human	human energy	human need
high	high energy	high need
physical	physical energy	physical need
Other adjectives: low, special, natural, sheer, powerful, little, bad, new, less, limited, magical.

Any acquired weapons or tools will run out of energy and need to be recharged before they can be fired again.

Source: Bottomless Magazines
Averted by ZPMs in SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, as they draw energy from subspace, and so don't need to follow the conservation of energy law.

Source: No Conservation of Energy
In 3.5 it's explicitly stated that while you do need to follow conservation of energy, you can pull any extra heat you need, for example, from the elemental plane of fire.

Source: No Conservation of Energy

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