Give scientific reasons - Solar energy is the source of all forms of fuels.
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The Sun’s energy warms the planet’s surface, powering titanic transfers of heat and pressure in weather patterns and ocean currents. The resulting air currents drive wind turbines. Solar energy also evaporates water that falls as rain and builds up behind dams, where its motion is used to generate electricity via hydropower.
Most Americans, however, use solar energy in its secondhand form: fossil fuels. When sunlight strikes a plant, some of the energy is trapped through photosynthesis and is stored in chemical bonds as the plant grows. Of course we can recover that energy directly months or years later by burning plant products such as wood, which breaks the bonds and releases energy as heat and light. More often, though, we use the stored energy in the much more concentrated forms that result when organic matter, after millions of years of geological and chemical activity underground, turns into coal, oil, or natural gas. Either way, we’re reclaiming the power of sunlight.
Most Americans, however, use solar energy in its secondhand form: fossil fuels. When sunlight strikes a plant, some of the energy is trapped through photosynthesis and is stored in chemical bonds as the plant grows. Of course we can recover that energy directly months or years later by burning plant products such as wood, which breaks the bonds and releases energy as heat and light. More often, though, we use the stored energy in the much more concentrated forms that result when organic matter, after millions of years of geological and chemical activity underground, turns into coal, oil, or natural gas. Either way, we’re reclaiming the power of sunlight.
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the sun is the only source of energy in the solar system. this energy is absorbed by plants and animals and used for their nourishment. it is stored in them in the form of chemical energy. when plants and animals die, this energy becomes available to us in the form of fossil fuel and other fuels after a long time. thus, solar energy is the source of all forms of fuel.
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