A friend says the energy of oil and coal is actually a form of solar energy. Is your friend correct, or mistak

Question

Note: Coal and oil are non-renewable re-
sources.
A friend says the energy of oil and coal is actually a form of solar energy. Is your friend correct, or mistaken?
1. Mistaken; the energy is actually nuclear.
2. Mistaken; the energy is actually geothermal.
3. Correct; these materials are the result of photosynthesis, a physical-chemical process that incorporates the sun's radiant energy into plant tissue

Answer 1

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Number 3.

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Answer 2

3. Coal, oil, and natural gas are the products of the decay of organic material, like plants, in an anaerobic environment, like the bottom of a swamp.

Eventually you can define most energy on the earth as solar energy. Solar heating and cooling creates winds, rotation around the earth by the moon creates tides and that is slightly affected by the sun’s gravity. Photosynthesis can’t exist without sunlight, nitrogen and carbon dioxide, but it is a chemical process that is unique to most plants and very few animals. That is what creates the plant matter that created the coal, oil and natural gas deposits that we are currently using. Those deposits were laid down in the time of the dinosaurs.

Plants are responsible for tying up and ‘locking’ a lot of carbon dioxide inside of themselves, when we burn them we release the carbon dioxide. This means we are creating the carbon dioxide we normally create, we are reducing the available plant area by destroying the rain forest, and we are releasing carbon dioxide that was locked into the earth back during the time of the dinosaurs all at the same time. This is why man’s effect on global warming has been so dramatic, also the fact that over 90% of the human beings that have ever lived are currently living today.