What is the source of energy stored in fossil fuels?

Answer 1

The sun. Fossil fuels are made up of plants and animals that lived in the past and have been converted to fossil fuels by geological processes over time. And as plants convert the suns energy into sugars, fossil fuels are stored solar energy.
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The energy comes from the energy that was previously in dead plants/animals... to understand better read about the carboniferous period. It explains how fossil fuels were created, through the compression of decaying plant material that had lots of locked up carbon underneath layers of sediments.

Answer 2

Solar Energy!
The Sun. All fossil fuels are generated from organic matter subjected to the proper conditions and geologic time. The sun supports all life forms that have ever lived on the earth since photosynthesis produced the plant matter which lies at the bottom of every food chain.

Answer 3

The sun.

Just about all the energy on our planet, including fossil fuel energy, originates with our sun. Other sources include are heat coming from below the Earth as in volcanoes and energy due to the rotation of the earth and tides from the moon (and the sun).

Fossil fuels come from fossilized biomass (plants and animals). Ultimately the energy to grow those plants and animals came from solar radiation (the Sun).

Do to the 1st law of thermodynamics, which says that energy is conserved; the energy in fossil fuels can be traced back as far as one can stand to contemplate.

1. Let's begin with nuclear fusion. 4.5 billion years ago during the development of the sun hydrogen began fusing to create helium. This fusion released vast amounts of electromagnetic energy and would continue to do so too this day.
2. The release of this energy set the stage for the development of life on planet earth. Initially primitive protobionts evolved into the first organisms and by the time 4 billion more years of this solar radiation endured life on earth was diverse including microorganisms, plants, and animals.
3. Millions of years ago, certain plants and microorganisms called photoautotrophs harvested the solar radiation released by nuclear fusion. This energy was locked into the bonds of carbohydrates which were incorporated into the structure of the organisms. Subsequently the organisms died and over time were buried beneath the surface of the earth in conditions of high temperature and pressure. These conditions upgraded the dead organic material into fossil fuels.
4. Today we search for these fuels so that we can release the energy that was originally collected from the nuclear fusion reactions in the sun millions of years ago.

Answer 4

They are found underground.Sometimes people dig for oil and go mining underground for coal.

Answer 5

The source of energy for fossil fuels is the hydrocarbons they contain which burn with oxygen to release a lot of heat. I don'y know about refining coal.

Answer 6

The source of energy in fossil fuels are called hydrocarbons. Hydrocarbons are found in fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas.

Answer 7

Chemical energy.

Answer 8

Coal, Oil, Natural Gas.

Answer 9

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