What are two ways in which the suns energy can be captured and used? How can both be used in a home?

Photosynthesis is a great example: plants use the sun's energy to grow and reproduce. Solar energy-power from the sun is a vast and inexhaustible resource that people have recently discovered and it's used for light and heat.

The following exist:

Artificial photosynthesis: Plants can photosynthesize, but we can do it artificially to power anything requiring energy.

Solar thermal energy or STE is a process where the light is reflected from a mirror or lense to heat up anything.

Photovoltaics or Heat collectors (Solar panels) : they absorb the sun's electromagnetic energy and converts it into electricity.

All of these technologies are very similar to each other ... this was a good question