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What other kinds of energy can we use?

You have seen in the previous question the stages through which the Sun’s energy passes before we can tap it as the fossil fuel, petrol. It has taken millions of years for the world’s reserves of oil to be built up and we have consumed much of it in a few decades. We need energy in our homes and in industry and for transport, but we also use crude oil to provide us with many of the chemicals upon which our way of life depends, so that scientists are working hard to find new ways of supplying the energy we have come to re-quire. Some of the ways are not so new; new types of windmills have been constructed and there has even been a return to the horse on some farms. The force of the tides also can be harnessed to drive turbines which then generate electricity. We can tap the Sun’s energy directly by means of solar panels which convert the Sun’s rays into usable forms of energy.