I always thought of christmas lights..like a string of them..when I thought of the seperate, yet same idea..but really now thinking of it..electromagnetic energy is a good example...it is pulled out of "the air" at the plant (imagine whatever power plant you want here)...sent through wires to our homes..where it brings life to all our stuff
of course...
plenty of natural recources, such as coal have to be burned to steam up that water, to turn that turbine, to buildup that electromagnetic energy
and suddenly Japan comes to mind (which hasn't evne been in the news of late, since it's stacke dunder various other disasters already)

“Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.”
― William S. Burroughs
(love&forgive yourself..and everyone else)