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Sun light, carbon dioxide and water make for life to exist. Sun rays cause a chemical reaction to occur in plants (photosynthesis) that turns carbon dioxide and water into simple sugars and oxygen. Animals need plants for food. Oil was formed over 20 million years ago, from dead animals and plants. Some of our oil is from plant and animal life that existed over 300 million years ago.

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Is sun a fossil fuel?

NO, The sun shines today and hopefully tomorrow and brings warmth and light as it did to the dinosaurs millions of years ago that since has been converted to the crude oil we recover today.


Is the sun a fossil fuel?

No, the sun is not a fossil fuel. Fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas are formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals over millions of years, whereas the sun is a burning mass of gas primarily made up of hydrogen and helium.


Why can you say that energy from fossil fuel burning energy comes from the sun?

Because the energy comes from free carbon and oxygen that produce heat when they are recombined to form CO2 (carbon dioxide). The fossil fuel contains hydrocarbons that can be burned to produce CO2, water and heat. The fossil fuel material was formed millions of years ago by photosynthesis, when plants took in CO2 and separated the carbon from the oxygen, using the Sun's rays. The carbon was used in the production of tissues for the planets, and the oxygen was released into the atmosphere. So the energy that comes from burning fossil fuels came originally from the Sun by photosynthesis.


How is fossil fuel related to the suns energy?

fossil fuels are the remains of dead plant matter, mostly plankton. Those plants use the sun to preform photosynthis. So the sun in a way grew the materials that the oil and coal we use today are made up of.Read more: What_does_the_sun_have_to_do_with_fossil_fuels


What fuel is the sun using to release energy?

Our sun, Sol, uses hydrogen for fuel.

Related Questions

How the sun affect fossil fuel?

it dosent


Which fossil fuel is formed over millions of years from sun?

Fossil fuels are formed on Earth, not on Sun.


Is fossil fuels a resource of inexhaustible solar energy?

Fossil fuel energy is from the sun originally that is true. But they are certainly not inexhaustible.


Why is the sun not a fossil fuel?

Because it cannot be burned. Fossil fuels, by definition, are chemicals which were created by living organisms at an earlier time. The sun condensed out of an interstellar cloud of gas.


Is sun a fossil fuel?

NO, The sun shines today and hopefully tomorrow and brings warmth and light as it did to the dinosaurs millions of years ago that since has been converted to the crude oil we recover today.


Is the sun a fossil fuel?

No, the sun is not a fossil fuel. Fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas are formed from the remains of ancient plants and animals over millions of years, whereas the sun is a burning mass of gas primarily made up of hydrogen and helium.


What natural resources are used to supply energy?

Fossil fuel, the wind, the Sun, hydro and biomass


How does lettuce plant trace its energy back to the sun?

i dun know sry .............


Did the energy that is stored in fossil fuels come from fission or fusion reactions from the sun?

Not fission. The sun's energy is produced by nuclear fusion, and that energy produced all the vegetation which turned into fossil fuel.


How are non fossil fuels formed?

It depends which non fossil fuel you are referring to.People use food as a fuel source.Electricity can be generated by the sun, wind, hydro power, nuclear, fuel cells. Each are formed in different ways.


How is the chemical energy in fossil fuels related to the sun's radiant energy?

The dead plants and animals compressed and heated over millions of years to create the fossil fuels would have originally obtained their energy from the sun. For example: sun ---(photosynthesis)---> plant ---(digested)---> animal ---(death and compression---> fossil fuel.


Why is the sun an alternate source of energy?

That means that humans might use solar energy instead of fossil fuel.