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Q: What fossil fuels originally got their energy from?
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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.


Where did Fossils fuels originally get their energy from?

Nearly all energy on the earth comes originally from the sun - including fossil fuels. To the best of our knowledge, fossil fuels come from the conversion of deposits of matter that was once living into the fuel via lots of pressure, heat, and time after it was buried deep in the crust. The plants that contribute to the fossil fuels got their energy from the sun via photosynthesis. The animals got their energy ultimately from the sun by eating plants that got their energy from the sun by photosynthesis or other animals that ate the plants that got their energy from the sun by photosynthesis.


Why is it wrong to say that fossil fuels are stores of light energy?

It's wrong to say this because it is inaccurate. Fossil fuels are stores of potential energy which can be converted (through combustion) into heat energy. Light energy is the energy that gives off light, but fossil fuels do not give off light.


How did the plants and animals get there energy when fossil fuels were made?

Due to heavy pressure and temperature of catastrophic upheavals


What is bad about fossil fules?

Fossil fuels are bad for the enviorment because: 1.When you burn fossil fuels you give off pollution 2.That pollution goes into the atmosphere 3.The pollution that got into the atmosphere will add to the ozone layer and make it hotter on Earth These are reasons that fossil fuels are bad for the enviorment.

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Fossil fuels actually got their energy originally from what?

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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.


Where did Fossils fuels originally get their energy from?

Nearly all energy on the earth comes originally from the sun - including fossil fuels. To the best of our knowledge, fossil fuels come from the conversion of deposits of matter that was once living into the fuel via lots of pressure, heat, and time after it was buried deep in the crust. The plants that contribute to the fossil fuels got their energy from the sun via photosynthesis. The animals got their energy ultimately from the sun by eating plants that got their energy from the sun by photosynthesis or other animals that ate the plants that got their energy from the sun by photosynthesis.


How did the energy get into fossil fuels?

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.


What role does the sun play in making fossil fuels?

Fossil fuels wwwwwwwere once living plants and animals. If they were plants they got their energy from the sun, and if they were animals they got their energy from eating plants who got their energy from the sun, or from eating animals who ate animals who ate plants who got their energy from the sun. In other words the sun is the source of all energy. The sun´s energy is stored in living beings, in plants and the animals that eat the plants, and if conditions are right, that energy is then stored in the form of fossil fuels.


Why is it wrong to say that fossil fuels are stores of light energy?

It's wrong to say this because it is inaccurate. Fossil fuels are stores of potential energy which can be converted (through combustion) into heat energy. Light energy is the energy that gives off light, but fossil fuels do not give off light.


How do fossil fuels contain solar energy?

Fossil fuels come from plants and microscopic organisms, which long ago died and were buried in the earth and slowly transformed into coal, oil, and gas. These plants and microorganisms once, millions of years ago, got their energy from the sun. Thus, all fossil fuels received some solar energy.


How did the plants and animals get there energy when fossil fuels were made?

Due to heavy pressure and temperature of catastrophic upheavals


What did Fossil fuels originally got there energy from?

Fossil fuels are usually found underground or under the ocean/sea bed. They are made this way:dead prehistoric fish/plants/trees fell to the earth/sea bed and got covered in dirt/soil and decomposed there and binded with the dirt/soil to make coal which we then can use to make mechanical power to make into electricity using turbines.


How did fosil fuels begin with energy from the sun?

Because sunlight allowed plants to grow, which made it possible for animals to eat the plants. Eventually the plants got turned into fossil fuels. Apart from geothermal and nuclear energy all energy sources on earth originated with sunlight.


What does the sun have to do with fossil fuels?

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.


What is bad about fossil fules?

Fossil fuels are bad for the enviorment because: 1.When you burn fossil fuels you give off pollution 2.That pollution goes into the atmosphere 3.The pollution that got into the atmosphere will add to the ozone layer and make it hotter on Earth These are reasons that fossil fuels are bad for the enviorment.