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Sum of a system's kinetic energy (KE) and potential energy (PE). Mechanical energy is constant in a system that experiences no dissipative forces such as friction or air resistance. For example, a swinging pendulum that experiences only gravitation has greatest KE and least PE at the lowest point on the path of its swing, where its speed is greatest and its height least. It has least KE and greatest PE at the extremities of its swing, where its speed is zero and its height is greatest. As it moves, energy is continuously passing back and forth between the two forms. Neglecting friction and air resistance, the pendulum's mechanical energy is constant.

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A wind turbine converts wind energy into mechanical energy for mechanical work.

Power from Wind to Energy by Moj News Agency (Tehran, Iran)

His idea: Connect his bikes to electrical generators, which convert the mechanical energy (energy of moving parts) from the bikes' spinning wheels into electrical energy (energy from the flow of electrons, or negatively charged particles).

Pedal power by Brusso, Charlene / Science World

Direct use of that mechanical energy makes the machine a wind mill, while conversion to electricity renders it a machine called by any of the following names: wind generators, wind turbines, wind power units (WPU), or wind energy converters (WEC).

Wind Turbines for Renewable Energy by John Mahoney / Environmental issues community

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