No, "converting energy" is converting energy, and creating energy is generating energy, because those words are synonyms. But this whole point is moot, because when someone "generates energy", what they mean is "generate useable energy" through a process of energy conversion. Even then, conservation of energy doesn't always hold.
If you're going to be pedantic, you could at least be correct.
I am correct. Read the first law of thermodynamics. Energy can be transformed from one form to another, but cannot be created or destroyed. "Create energy" is impossible.
And what do you mean that conservation of energy doesn't always hold?
"Create energy" in this context means "Create usable energy through an energy conversion process." As I stated above. So yes, you are correct, if you're being uncharitable to the flexibility of the English language.
>And what do you mean that conservation of energy doesn't always hold?
I mean what I said. Conservation of energy is not a law of nature, it's only a local approximation to the Conservation of the value of the Stress-Energy Tensor. Which when manipulated conservatively, can and does result in the creation and destruction of energy.
