The sun. Fossil fuels are made up of plants and animals that lived in the past and have been converted to fossil fuels by geological processes over time. And as plants convert the suns energy into sugars, fossil fuels are stored solar energy.
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The energy comes from the energy that was previously in dead plants/animals... to understand better read about the carboniferous period. It explains how fossil fuels were created, through the compression of decaying plant material that had lots of locked up carbon underneath layers of sediments.
Solar Energy!
The Sun. All fossil fuels are generated from organic matter subjected to the proper conditions and geologic time. The sun supports all life forms that have ever lived on the earth since photosynthesis produced the plant matter which lies at the bottom of every food chain.
The sun.
Just about all the energy on our planet, including fossil fuel energy, originates with our sun. Other sources include are heat coming from below the Earth as in volcanoes and energy due to the rotation of the earth and tides from the moon (and the sun).
Fossil fuels come from fossilized biomass (plants and animals). Ultimately the energy to grow those plants and animals came from solar radiation (the Sun).
Do to the 1st law of thermodynamics, which says that energy is conserved; the energy in fossil fuels can be traced back as far as one can stand to contemplate.
They are found underground.Sometimes people dig for oil and go mining underground for coal.
The source of energy for fossil fuels is the hydrocarbons they contain which burn with oxygen to release a lot of heat. I don'y know about refining coal.
The source of energy in fossil fuels are called hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons are found in fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.
Chemical energy.
Coal, Oil, Natural Gas.
in the usa
When fossil fuels are burned, they release energy stored years ago.
fossil fuels
Fossil fuel. Also, natural gas is in the category of fossil fuels.
When the trees and vegetation were growing they took in solar energy through photosynthesis. This energy was stored in the plants as hydrocarbons. It remains there as the plants, over millions of years, become fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas).
Most countries burn fossil fuels to generate electricity.If they used solar power to generate electricity, thenThey would not have to use so much fossil fuel.Solar Energy itself does not reduce the use of fossil fuels. But the use of solar energy should hopefully reduce the need of fossil fuels to create energy, so therefore the more we can use solar power as an energy source instead of fossil fuels, the more we reduce the use of fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels are produced by the slow alteration of masses of vegetation, compressed underground. That vegetation originally used the energy of sunlight to grow, therefore it is the sun's energy which is stored in chemical form, in fossil fuels.
No. Fossil fuels store chemical energy. It is this chemical energy we tap by using them for fuels.
When fossil fuels are burned, they release energy stored years ago.
When fossil fuels are burned, some of the chemical energy stored in them is converted into thermal energy.
electromagnetic energy
fossil fuels can be used as an energy source to power all vehicles and most machinery
Fossil fuels are exhaustible. Electric energy is an alternative.
Fossil fuels contain the chemical energy that plants and algae obtained from sunlight and then stored in sugars. Just as energy chemical energy is stored in sugars, chemical energy is stored in fossil fuels. All it takes to release it is enough heat and oxygen to cause the fuel to burn.
Fossil fuels are made from plant and vegetable matter that died millions of years ago. The plants and vegetables got their energy from the main energy source around here - our sun. Essentially, fossil fuels can be regarded as stored energy from the sun. We use/release that energy again by burning the fuel.
Chemical potential energy
Fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels are a non-renewable energy source.