  We probe, using a model system, elastic and kinetic energies for sheared
granular materials. For large enough $P/E_y$ (pressure/Young's modulus) and
$P/\rho v^2$ ($P/$kinetic energy density) elastic dominates kinetic energy, and
energy fluctuations become primarily elastic in nature. This regime has likely
been reached in recent experiments. We consider a generalization of the
granular temperature, $T_g$, with both kinetic and elastic terms and that
changes smoothly from one regime to the other. This $T_g$ is roughly consistent
with a temperature adapted from equilibrium statistical mechanics.
