describe how energy from th sun became stored in oil?

Answer 1

Almost all of the energy on earth comes from the sun originally. This would be a ball of ice otherwise.
The sun gave plants the energy to photosynthesize, the plants were eaten by dinosaurs.
When a dinosaur died, it eventually sank into the earh and was crushed by the enormous pressure of the weight of the earth above it.
This is how oil and gas were formed - they used to be living creatures / plants.

Answer 2

One of the most common sources of petroleum came from tiny creatures (diatoms, or some other oceanic plant microbes) that used a portion of their sunlight energy in the production of vegetable oil to maintain their position in the water column. As sedimentation covered up their exoskeletons they slowly reached proper temperature and pressure relationships that converted this (along with other sources) into petroleum. The hydrocarbons are reduced, and burning oxidizes them and in the process released this stored chemical energy.

Answer 3

The sun's energy can be stored. Plants store energy from the sun as they grow. Fruits, vegetables and wood from trees, for example, all contain stored solar energy. We call it biomass energy, from "bio" for "life" or "living". These kinds of energy are also renewable, but of course it takes longer to grow a plant or a tree than it does to get heat directly from sunlight.

Answer 4

Energy from sunlight is used by plants for photosynthesis.
The products of photosynthesis include the synthesis of carbohydrates from CO2 and water. These are stored in the tissues of green plants, in leaves, stems, and roots. Under certain conditions, if the plants die and are stored in large accumulations under pressure and heat (geological forces), the carbohydrates convert to hydrocarbons, that are the basis of petroleum. Under other conditions, they are converted to elemental carbon and become coal.

Answer 5

animals that ate plants and plants themselves decomposed, compressed, and changed due to pressure. the sun's energy from the plants and the animals that ate the plants is released back by burning the resulting oil.

Answer 6

The most likely origin of oil is organic. Namely, plants and/or animals have been buried under sediment, exposed to heat and pressure and been converted to oil (and coal).

However the idea that this is the result of dinosaurs (or plankton) slowly dropping to the bottom of the sea is faintly ridiculous.
Coal and oil have been formed by the catastrophic burial of vast amounts of organic material.

http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n1/origin-of-oil

Oil is under huge pressure - which is why it doesn't need tobe pumped out initially. It doesn't get to be there under he rock by seeping through from above. The organic material was buried from above.

The most obvious explanation for coal and oil is the Globa Flood.