Energy

These are some different types of energy:

BIOMASS ENERGY: Biomass energy is the raidiant energy from the sun which can be made of Wood waste Hydrogen Alcohol Fuels and Waste from people and animals. Biomass may also include biogradable waste that can be burnt as fuel. It excludes organic matireials such as fossil fuels which have been transformed by geological processes into substances such as coal or petrolom.

THERMAL ENERGY: The ultimate source of thermal energy available to mankind is the sun, the huge thermo-nuclear furnace that supplies the earth with the heat and light that are essential to life. The nuclear fusion in the sun increases the sun's thermal energy. Once the thermal energy leaves the sun (in the form of radiation) it is called heat. Heat is thermal energy in tranfer. When you put your hand over a hot stove you can feel the heat. You are feeling thermal energy //in transfer//. The atoms and molecules in the metal of the burner are moving very rapidly because the electrical energy from the wall outlet has increased the thermal energy in the burner. We all know what happens when we rub our hands together. Our mechanical energy increases the thermal energy content of the atoms in our hands and skin. We then //feel// the consequence of this - heat.

CHEMICAL ENERGY: