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Hydro power is the classic method. That works because the Sun's heat energy evaporates the oceans causing water vapour eventually to condense and fall as rain into mountain lakes.

The water in the high lakes has potential energy because it's high up, and it can be run down a chute so that it gathers speed and hits a set of turbine blades to drive a generator. That is a hydro power plant.

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