primary energy

{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-005164",
  "term": "primary energy",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "Primary energy should be used to designate those sources that only involve extraction or capture, with or without separation from contiguous material, cleaning or grading, before the energy embodied in that source can be converted into heat or mechanical work.",
  "synonyms": [
    "upstream energy"
  ],
  "subject": "Natural Resources, Conservation, Environment",
  "see_also": [
    "energy accounting",
    "embodied energy"
  ],
  "references": [
    "United Nations, Concepts and Methods in Energy Statistics, 1982.",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "energía primaria"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/primary-energy/"
}