What is an example of "stored energy"?

Answer 1

ice might could represent some stored energy. And maybe a hugely enormous gigantic slab of ice could be a LOT of stored energy. but if it is stored energy then what would the release of all that energy do?????? what if it isnt the stored part thats most interesting? more like the machine that made all that ice in the first place. now thats a hugely enormous gigantic ice making machine! i think our ice maker is broken. probably not the whole thing. just enough so it dont work so well any more. guess the food gonna go bad.

Answer 2

Since this question was in "Environment and Ecology" I'll give an answer based on that, and not physics.

One example of stored energy is fossil fuels such as coal or oil. Coal is essentially stored sunlight energy, in the form of complex carbon molecules, from eons ago - specifically the ancient Carboniferous swamps. Oil is similar, but rarer and from a different source - it is basically ancient sea sludge, the leftovers of long-dead phytoplankton which died and sank to the sea floor, where it was buried, compressed, and cooked underground.

Wood is also stored sunlight - but the accumulation is decades old, not eons.

If you're asking about how energy is stored inside the body, then that is obviously lipids (fats.)

Answer 3

A car and all batteries are stored energy , materials that store static , Heavy clouds ready to thunder a lightning bolt , a volcano ready to erupt , etc.

Answer 4

A compressed spring; a charged capacitor; a magnetic field; compressed air in a tank; a garden hose with the water turned on and the spray nozzle turned off.

Answer 5

winding up a toy or a ball at the top of its bounce

Answer 6

still water or a stationery ball