That's a pretty good way to put it, yeah. Basically, we're taking energy in some form or another from nature, converting it into it's most basic form, and storing it for our own use. It's how the industrial revolution in my world was started.

[He smiles.] Everybody's gotta start somewhere. We come from very different worlds. Where I need machines and energy, you've got magic. Who's to say that the way your world works isn't better?