IAN BAGUSKAS

A pocket of sunlight refers to the energy from the sun's rays stored in matter derived from plants within the earth's surface. The energy of the sun, captured over millions of years by millions of plants more than 100 million years ago. Fossil fuels such as coal and crude oil are examples of this stored energy that originated from our sun. Humans have been burning this matter in order to take advantage of the energy it produces, energy originally from the sun. The use of this limited resource is resulting in the carbon dioxide, that the plants captured, to be re-released into the atmosphere contributing heavily to the warming of the planet.