how does oil store energy from the sun?

Answer 1

As chemical energy. I'm certainly not going to go into the long complicated process of the conversion of the suns energy as photons into chemical energy via phosphorylation of adenosine diphosphate, which enables plants to grow, and their eventual death and decomposition over millions of years leading to the formation of oil.

Answer 2

Oil is a fossil fuel which means that millions of years ago there were prehistoric forests which broke down over the millenia into crude oil under the ground. These forsts grew the same way forests grow today by using the rays of the sun in a chemical process using the chlorine in the leaves which makes them green. The process is called photosynthesis and this produces sugars which the plants use to grow.
Really all life on earth is solar powered because the carnivores eat the herbivores, the herbivores eat the plants and the plants utilise the suns rays to produce their food, to put it very simply. Obviously it is a bit more complex than that but that's the idea There is sealife that use thermal energy which live around thermal vents at the bottom of the ocean where the temperatures reach hundreds of degrees which were discovered in the mid nineties.
So there you have it when you burn oil you are releasing energy that had been stored in it which came from the sun millions of years ago, it's pretty cool when you think about it!

Answer 3

Oils are produced by plants. The plants soaked up the energy from the sun & used it to create bonds between the atoms which make up the oil. Thus the oil stores energy originally taken from the sun.

Answer 4

Glad you asked. When Energy from the sun reaches the earth it is absorbed by plants which convert it into biomass. Over millions of years, biomass becomes oil deep in the ground. Burning the oil releases the energy origionally captured from the sun by the plants.

Answer 5

We aren't sure it does. The core of the earth is composed of many elements and with heat and pressure a lot of things have apeared like other mineral deposits. Oil being liquid, no one can be sure it didn't come from below and get trapped under rock domes. Some people made up stories and published books and if you hear something enough you start beleiving it.

Answer 6

By getting warm?

Answer 7

By warming up perhaps?