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Yes it does. The Sun's energy is used to drive photosynthesis in plants. Carbon dioxide is absorbed from the atmosphere by green plants, and the energy is used to separate carbon and oxygen atoms from the carbon dioxide, a process which absorbs energy. The plant uses the carbon to build tissues like leaves, stem etc., and most of the oxygen is released into the air. This process originally made mammal life possible.
Millions of years later those plants have decomposed and fossilised, and formed oil underground, which is brought up and used as fuel. The carbon in the fuel and oxygen from the atmosphere are recombined by burning the fuel. Re-forming the carbon-oxygen atomic bonds releases the stored energy as heat and generates carbon dioxide. The heat drives an engine and the carbon dioxide is released in the exhaust gases. This is what happens when carbon fuel such as coal, oil and gas are used as fuel.
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Fossil fuels contain energy that originally came from where?
Fossil fuels contain energy that originally came from the sun.
Why do some people call it buried sunshine?
fossil fuelsI assume you are talking about fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas). You can call these buried sunshine since the energy in fossil fuels comes from decaying plants and microorganisms. Those plants and microorganisms got their energy originally from the sun. So all the energy in fossil fuels originally came from the sun.
Fossil fuels are stored energy that came from?
Fossil fuels are fuels like coal. These came for example from a dead fish that when it died its body sank to the sea bed and over the years and decades and thousands of years became buried under layers of soil and rock until it is finally dug up and burnt to produce fossil fuels.
What is the law of conservation of energy as it applies to the burning of fossil fuels?
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How much of the world energy consumption comes from fossil fuels?
According to the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) in 2010, total energy consumption was 523.9 quadrillion British Thermal Units (Btu). Of this, 56.2 quadrillion Btu, or 10.7% was from renewable sources, and 27.3 quadrillion Btu or 5.2% was from Nuclear sources. The balance of 84.1% came from fossil fuels.
Fossil fuels contain energy that originally came from where?
Fossil fuels contain energy that originally came from the sun.
Are fossil fuels stored solar energy?
Yes, the energy in fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) came originally from the sun.
Fossil fuels contains energy that originally came from?
the sun:-)
Why do some people call it buried sunshine?
fossil fuelsI assume you are talking about fossil fuels (coal, oil, natural gas). You can call these buried sunshine since the energy in fossil fuels comes from decaying plants and microorganisms. Those plants and microorganisms got their energy originally from the sun. So all the energy in fossil fuels originally came from the sun.
Fossil fuels are stored energy that came from?
Fossil fuels are fuels like coal. These came for example from a dead fish that when it died its body sank to the sea bed and over the years and decades and thousands of years became buried under layers of soil and rock until it is finally dug up and burnt to produce fossil fuels.
What is the law of conservation of energy as it applies to the burning of fossil fuels?
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How does computers cause air pollution?
Indirectly. The majority of the power we use comes from fossil energy, so computers are partly powered by the burning of fossil fuels, which contributes to air pollution. The energy that went into producing the computers also came to some extent from the burning of fossil fuels, so again a contribution. Then the computers had to transported from where they were produced and eventually to the homes of the users. Most of that transport was most likely powered by fossil fuels as well.
How much of the world energy consumption comes from fossil fuels?
According to the United States Energy Information Administration (EIA) in 2010, total energy consumption was 523.9 quadrillion British Thermal Units (Btu). Of this, 56.2 quadrillion Btu, or 10.7% was from renewable sources, and 27.3 quadrillion Btu or 5.2% was from Nuclear sources. The balance of 84.1% came from fossil fuels.
How does photosynthesis produse biomass?
Biomass fuels come from living things. Wood is a biomass fuel. As long as we continue to plant new trees to replace those cut down, we will always have wood to burn. Just as with the fossil fuels, the energy stored in biomass fuels came originally from the Sun.
In what form is the stored energy in fossil fuels?
Fossil fuels rely on the Sun's energy because the energy in fossil fuels came from plants and algae as they performed photosynthesis, which requires sunlight. This energy was stored in the form of sugars, and when the plants and algae died, they were eventually buried and heated to a point where they were turned into a fossil fuel, which contained the solar energy the plants had stored in their lifetimes.A:Fossil Fuels originate from the transformation of residual organic matter within sedimentary rocks, a process that takes million years to occur. Organic residues issued from dead organisms (plants, plantkon, etc) are mostly mineralized into CO2 in the water column (sea borders, lakes) and at the surface of sediments. However, under certain conditions (anoxicity), organic materials are preserved and trapped within sediments. As a result of sediments burial, organic matter is submitted to higher pressure and temperature and becomes thermally unstable. It then transforms into water, CO2 and hydrocarbons.Fossil fuels exist because life exists at the Earth's surface. Photosynthesis is the process by which CO2 is transformed into organic matter that constitute living organisms. The energy for phtosynthesis comes from the sun, so indeed one can say that sun is the origin of fossil fuels.
What percentage of Earth's energy comes from the sun?
More than 99%. Even the energy from fossil fuels (coal, oil and natural gas) came originally from the sun. Goethermal energy (from heat under the ground) is the only non-solar energy on Earth.
Fossil fuels came from what rocks heat and pressure plants and animals wood and clay?
plants
