Do fuels, wind, and moving water directly depend on solar energy?

Answer 1

No, none of them do.

Answer 2

Read my lips: ALL the energy is about the SUN, one way or another. Combustible fuels, such as oil, are stored solar energy, because the plant life from millions of years ago that became oil (over time) required sunlight to grow -even to exist at all. That takes care of the fuels.

The wind occurs because of atmospheric changes driven by the energy of the sun, heating by day, cooling by night, and evaporating water into the air all the time. Result: wind. No sun, no wind.

Where does moving water come from? From the seas and atmosphere, whose activity is all sun driven. Again, the sun.

Of course, when used directly, the energy of the sun is called, "solar," simply to designate that it is used directly with no intermediate process or product.

The only energy source which could possibly be an exception is fissionable material such as uranium which generates its own energy ("atomic" energy). But then again, there would be no uranium if there were no sun -there would be no earth at all, so even uranium and other radioactive elements eventaully look back toward ther creation of the solar system.

'nuff said?

Answer 3

Wind and water power are very closely dependent upon solar energy. Solar energy causes the evaporation which allows the water to fall as precipitation on the highlands, after which we can capture the energy of the water running down to the ocean. Winds are caused by uneven heating of the earth, which causes air to rise in some areas and sink in others. Rising air results in horizontally moving air (wind) to rush in behind it. Falling air runs into the ground and then spreads out. Fuels depend on a longer link to solar power, a link which is spread out over millions of years, reaching back to the time when the organics in them were part of living things which depended on the sun.

Answer 4

yes, all of them do...

Fuels: Oil, natural gas, etc. are basically plants and animals that died hundreds of thousands of years ago. Without the sun, there would be no plants nor animals.

Wind: Wind is caused mainly by air moving from warmer areas to cooler areas. The sun is the only thing heating the earth. Without it, the air all over the world would reach an equillibrium temperature, and therefore wind would cease to exist.

Moving Water: Again, water moves from warmer to cooler, without the sun, an equillibrium temperature would be reached, but not only that, the equillibrium temperature would be below freezing, so there would be no water left on earth... only ice.

Answer 5

Wind is caused by thermal differences from solar energy.
Water moving is caused by gravity, but it got up there from evaporation from solar enrgy.
Fuels are made from old plants that change to oil and they grew from solar energy.
Solar Energy is the only external energy source we get.

Answer 6

From the viewpoint of DIRECT dependence, the answer is no. However, fuels and wind ultimately require solar energy.

Answer 7

for the most part, the bulk of them do require solar energy. But, geothermal activity can cause all of them to occur, to a lesser degree.