Plastic is made from fossil fuels. Metal is taken out of the
ground with large machines that use more fossil fuels.
Computers and phones need
electrical energy to work.
Buses need gasoline or diesol fuel - both fossil fuels.
School buses might use electricity to run someday in the future but
right now they all use fossil fuels.
Big
machines were used to make the book.
They all used electricity too.
Trucks used fossil fuels to take your book to a store.
Then somebody bought it for you and drove it home.
Pumps used electricity to take the water out of the ground
and put
it into plastic bottles.
The plastic
bottle is made mostly of fossil fuels.
The washing machine needs electricity to run.
More electricity
was used to get the water to your house.
The clothes dryer
needs electricity too, or a fossil fuel like natural gas, to make the
heat to dry the clothes.
. Water pumps use
electricity to water the plants so they grow.
Trucks use fossil fuels to
carry the food to the store. The store uses electricity to keep the food
cold and fresh before we buy it. Then we put it in our refrigerator at
home, using more electricity.
THAT TAKES THE ENERGY OF THE SUN!
Sunshine is the most important energy
for all of the people on earth.
Thank you, Richard and Marci Yates for your work on the
solar cooker!
