Talk:Firebending/@comment-110.55.14.187-20120129164813/@comment-76.24.189.176-20120212041121

^ Yes there is a difference between fire and energy. We as normal real world human live, move, think, breathe, etc. every day and it all uses energy that has nothing to do with fire. Fire's energy comes solely from the chemical reaction that creates it. Our digestion process is also a chemical reaction that gives us energy, but it doesn't give us fire too or we'd burn up.

All bending forms take energy to preform, just as everyday functions take energy to preform. Fire takes a lot of energy because it is likely needed in creating/sustaining the chemical reaction for fire. If fire had nothing to burn off of it would simply go out, so it is likely firebender use their spiritual energy or Chi as a fuel source. Chi is named after water, and waterbenders (the opposite of firebenders) can learn to manipulate it to speed up the healing process. ALL BENDING uses the same form of energy found in the human body, not just firebending. So fire is related to energy just as much as water, earth, and air are. But in the Avatar universe, fire itself is not energy, and neither are water, earth, and air. Neither is lightning for that matter, as that is just a bolt of electricity (or a current of flowing electrons).

In short, firebending is related to energy like all bending is, but it isn't energy in of itself. Btw, the other 3 elements are far more complex than you made them out to be, and water and ice is like fire and heat. Water and ice is not like fire and energy.