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To: FreshPrince

The end of fossil fuels is the end of food, Einstein.


8 posted on 12/02/2022 12:08:27 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

There is no such thing as “fossil fuels”. There are hydrocarbon compounds trapped in underground reservoirs, and layers of a highly concentrated form of carbon, known as coal, with other hydrocarbons mixed in, but the belief that all our petroleum comes from the decomposition of other formerly living creatures or swamp plants is actually a little far-fetched.

Most of the hydrocarbons known on earth came from the abiotic processes that exist within the Mohorovičić discontinuity, usually referred to as the Moho discontinuity or the Moho, the boundary between the Earth’s crust and the mantle. It is defined by the distinct change in velocity of seismic waves as they pass through changing densities of rock.

In the hellish conditions that exist within this boundary layer, some very different chemistry is going on at all times, creating a wide variety of hydrocarbons, which seep upward and are trapped in pockets within the rocky crust of the earth. The presence of carbon dioxide and elemental hydrogen, and various metallic catalysts, under conditions of heat and pressure, forces the reactions largely in one direction, with the carbon dioxide acting both as a solvent in hypercritical conditions, and as a source for the carbon which combines with the elemental hydrogen which forms with the dissociation of the water molecules that had gotten down to that level.


20 posted on 12/02/2022 12:36:52 PM PST by alloysteel (People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do - Isaac Asimov)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Um no there is no plan to starve billions of people.

I am still waiting for all the starvation to occur because the hot pockets plant was burned.

Still waiting for billions to die from the covid vaccine.

The predicted crop failure and starvation because of supposedly no ferterlizer this spring— all part of “the plan” of course, didnt happened either...


30 posted on 12/02/2022 2:03:29 PM PST by FreshPrince
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