LIFE on Earth as we know it.
Energy from the sun provides a large part of the earth's energy use, the other part coming from internal thermal energy. Sunlight makes vegetation grow through photosynthesis. It drives the earth's weather patterns through absorption of infrared energy. It can also generate electricity directly using photovoltaic panels.
Yes, consumers indirectly get energy from the sun through various processes. The sun's energy is captured by plants during photosynthesis, converting it into chemical energy stored in the form of carbohydrates. Consumers then obtain this energy by consuming plants or other organisms that have consumed plants.
Because almost all processes occurring on the surface of the earth rely on the sun as their ultimate source of energy. The only ones that don't are those that rely on geothermal energy.
Sun energy.
Energy from the sun is called solar energy.
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The sun (indirectly).
Mainly by solar energy and gravity. 2. By the energy from the sun.
Energy from the sun provides a large part of the earth's energy use, the other part coming from internal thermal energy. Sunlight makes vegetation grow through photosynthesis. It drives the earth's weather patterns through absorption of infrared energy. It can also generate electricity directly using photovoltaic panels.
Most free energy on the earth originally comes from the sun, (solar energy) and has been changed via biological processes thousands of years ago to chemical energy and stored underground (coal, oil etc). Alternatively energy sources can include wind, hydro, tidal and solar, but all of these processes are driven either directly or indirectly by thermal energy and light provided by the sun. The only energy not coming directly or indirectly from the sun is nuclear energy. So the answer to your question is that the light energy we use is from the sun, its just alot more efficient to take it directly from the sun instead of changing it back and forth repeatedly as even our best technologies lose alot of energy during transfers.
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