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Fossil fuel would I guess be chemically stored fusion energy from a long time ago

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

How does wind energy fit then?

Or hydro electric dams?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Wind: The sun (a giant fusion reactor) heats the atmosphere which generates the wind (highly simplified).

Hydro: Driven by the water cycle where the sun plays a key role in the "evaporation, condensation, precipitation" process.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Wind is due to the asemetric effects of heating different parts of the globe different amounts. Hydro is from rain and snow which is evaporated with the sun