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    "generatedAt": "2026-09-11T05:00:01Z",
    "providers": [
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    ],
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    "wave": 1,
    "engine": "claude",
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      "engine": "claude",
      "producedAt": "2026-10-05T16:30:00Z",
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        "ethics",
        "owners"
      ]
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        "completeness 1.00",
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        "2 live sources",
        "review by codex: pass"
      ]
    }
  },
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      "PHY.FLW"
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    "name": "energy",
    "purpose": "Let an agent handle energy with its form, quantity, unit and conversion, and keep energy separate from power and from everyday uses of the word.",
    "definition": "In physics, a conserved quantity equivalent to the capacity of a physical system to do work, existing in forms such as kinetic, potential, thermal, chemical, electrical and radiant energy, measured in joules.",
    "what_it_is_for": "Explaining physical change and powering everything people do, from food to electricity.",
    "affordances": [
      "measure it, in joules or kilowatt-hours",
      "convert it between forms, with losses",
      "store it, in batteries, fuels and reservoirs",
      "transmit it, as electricity or heat"
    ],
    "distinguishing_features": [
      "Conserved in isolated systems",
      "Different from power, which is energy per time",
      "Converted between forms, never created",
      "Activation energy and alternating current are related concepts, not forms"
    ],
    "appearance": "Not visible itself; seen through its effects: motion, heat, light, electric current.",
    "visual_identification": [
      "Values in J, kWh, cal or eV",
      "Meters on electricity and gas supplies",
      "Power (W) is a rate, not energy"
    ],
    "physical_properties": [
      {
        "quantity": "SI unit",
        "typical_range": "joule",
        "unit": "J",
        "note": "1 kWh = 3.6 MJ"
      },
      {
        "quantity": "food energy",
        "typical_range": "1 kcal = 4.184",
        "unit": "kJ",
        "note": ""
      }
    ],
    "families_and_kinds": [
      "kinetic and potential",
      "thermal",
      "chemical",
      "electrical",
      "radiant",
      "nuclear"
    ],
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      {
        "relation": "is confused with",
        "target": "power",
        "why": "rate of energy transfer"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is measured by",
        "target": "efficiency",
        "why": "useful output over input"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is supplied as",
        "target": "electricity and fuel",
        "why": "energy carriers"
      },
      {
        "relation": "is a kind of",
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        "why": "SI derived quantity"
      }
    ],
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      {
        "scheme": "SI unit symbol",
        "value_or_pattern": "J",
        "note": "joule"
      }
    ],
    "standards_and_regulation": [
      "SI Brochure",
      "Energy market and metering regulation",
      "Energy labelling and efficiency law"
    ],
    "failure_modes_and_hazards": [
      "Confusing kW and kWh",
      "Stored energy hazards: batteries, pressure, height",
      "Electrical shock and arc flash"
    ],
    "in_scope": [],
    "out_of_scope": [],
    "characteristics": [],
    "agent_conduct": {
      "may": [
        "Calculate and report energy in joules or other stated units, distinguishing power from energy.",
        "Monitor stored energy in batteries and systems it is authorized to manage."
      ],
      "must_not": [
        "Confuse kilowatts with kilowatt-hours in figures people rely on.",
        "Work on electrical, pressurised or elevated systems without isolating stored energy.",
        "Bypass protection on batteries or electrical systems.",
        "Overstate energy savings or understate consumption."
      ],
      "requires_human": [
        "Switching off energy supply to a building or person.",
        "Releasing stored energy in a large system."
      ]
    },
    "ethics": {
      "considerations": [
        "Energy access affects health and dignity; energy poverty is widespread.",
        "Energy use drives climate change, with burdens shared unequally."
      ],
      "affected_parties": [
        "Energy users",
        "Workers on energy systems"
      ]
    },
    "owners": {
      "steward": "Nobody owns the physical quantity; operators answer for energy systems.",
      "master_systems": []
    }
  },
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "oewn",
      "title": "Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-11472635-n",
      "url": "https://en-word.net/id/oewn-11472635-n",
      "what_it_supports": "sense and gloss of the concept",
      "url_status": "live",
      "checked_by": "http 200"
    },
    {
      "id": "wiktionary-en",
      "title": "Wiktionary: energy",
      "url": "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/energy",
      "what_it_supports": "word senses and usage",
      "url_status": "live",
      "checked_by": "http 200"
    }
  ],
  "structure": {
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      {
        "id": "form-and-quantity",
        "name": "Form and quantity",
        "description": "What energy and how much.",
        "rationale": "Form and amount are the basic facts.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "form",
            "name": "Form",
            "description": "Kinetic, thermal, chemical.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "form-finding",
                "name": "Form",
                "description": "The form of energy.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "In what form is the energy?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What system holds it?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "amount",
            "name": "Amount",
            "description": "Joules or kWh.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "amount-finding",
                "name": "Amount",
                "description": "The quantity and unit.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How much energy, in which unit?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Is this energy or power?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "conversion",
        "name": "Conversion",
        "description": "Changing form.",
        "rationale": "Every conversion has losses.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "process",
            "name": "Process",
            "description": "How it converts.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "process-finding",
                "name": "Conversion",
                "description": "The conversion process.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which conversion takes place?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How efficient is it?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "losses",
            "name": "Losses",
            "description": "Heat and other losses.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "losses-finding",
                "name": "Losses",
                "description": "Where energy is lost.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Where is energy lost?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Can losses be reduced?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "storage-and-supply",
        "name": "Storage and supply",
        "description": "Keeping and delivering energy.",
        "rationale": "Storage and supply shape energy systems.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "storage",
            "name": "Storage",
            "description": "Batteries, fuels, reservoirs.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "storage-finding",
                "name": "Storage",
                "description": "How energy is stored.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How is energy stored, and how much?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What hazards does the store present?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "supply",
            "name": "Supply",
            "description": "Electricity and fuels.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "supply-finding",
                "name": "Supply",
                "description": "Supply and metering.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "How is it supplied and metered?",
                    "kind": "definition"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "What does it cost per kWh?",
                    "kind": "measurement"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "safety",
        "name": "Safety",
        "description": "Released energy.",
        "rationale": "Uncontrolled release of energy causes injury.",
        "layers": [
          {
            "id": "hazards",
            "name": "Hazards",
            "description": "Electrical, thermal, mechanical.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "hazards-finding",
                "name": "Hazards",
                "description": "Hazards from stored energy.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which hazards come from this energy?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "How is it isolated before work?",
                    "kind": "action"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "id": "limits",
            "name": "Limits",
            "description": "Standards and limits.",
            "findings": [
              {
                "id": "limits-finding",
                "name": "Limits",
                "description": "Applicable limits.",
                "questions": [
                  {
                    "text": "Which safety standards apply?",
                    "kind": "provenance"
                  },
                  {
                    "text": "Who is qualified to work on it?",
                    "kind": "boundary"
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "openQuestions": [
    "Should forms of energy be separate entries?",
    "How should energy carriers be linked?",
    "The registry entry has merged aliases such as alternating current; should they be split off?"
  ],
  "statistics": {
    "bundles": 4,
    "layers": 8,
    "findings": 8,
    "questions": 16
  }
}