Posted on 04/29/2022 8:15:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Despite the commonality of ‘fossil’ being used in conjunction with ‘fuel’, fossil fuels do not exist. Fossils have no energy to transfer, which means they cannot be used as a source of fuel.
In order to understand why it is impossible for fossils to be used for fuel, it is important to understand what fossils are.
From Discovering Fossils:
The modern use of the word ‘fossil’ refers to the physical evidence of former life from a period of time prior to recorded human history. This prehistoric evidence includes the fossilised [sic] remains of living organisms, impressions and moulds [sic] of their physical form, and marks/traces created in the sediment by their activities. There is no universally agreed age at which the evidence can be termed fossilised [sic], however it’s broadly understood to encompass anything more than a few thousand years. Such a definition includes our prehistoric human ancestry and the ice age fauna (e.g. mammoths) as well as more ancient fossil groups such as the dinosaurs, ammonites and trilobites.
Fossils are, in essence, lifeless rocks with no stored energy of any kind.
A fundamental law of physics is energy cannot be created or destroyed. It must be transferred from an already existing force – which cannot possibly be inanimate rocks. For fuel to be taken from fossils requires the discarding of a law that cannot be violated.
As longtime (and now retired) writer for Plastics Today, Claire Goldsberry, reported:
The term “fossil fuel” is really a misnomer that caught on and is still being used.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Diatoms?” I put those things in my pool!
It's called Abiogenic petroleum. The geologic formations of old sand bars, dead swamps and forests create a trap for the results of fluids formed by high pressure, high heat, methane from when the Earth was formed, water. Let it all simmer for a few billions years, and in some places it forms pools, contaminated by organic matter in these traps, that can be pumped out.
The organic fouling makes the difference between bunker grade, light sweet crude, heavy sour crude.
Micro droplets that miss these traps float up, and are eaten by hosts of microbes under ground. It's why old, capped wells are slowly refilling. It's not instant, but it happens. Crude, after all, is eaten by microbes, after spills. The process takes years, but Nature cleans itself.
Recall that the theory of oil being the product of dead dinosaurs is 200 years old, and planetary formation science has developed a little, since then.
Fracking uses salt water under high pressure to open up the formations. You know, the stuff in the oceans.
The "chemicals" are oil, Bentonite clay, to make drilling "mud," water.
The climate change, peak oil types want you walking, like good little serfs, and will invent any lie that matches their compulsion.
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any remains, impression, or trace of a living thing of a former geologic age, as a skeleton, footprint, etc.
adjective:
belonging to a past epoch or discarded system;
Works for me but I'll include the matter in my list of urgent matters I need to tend to.
Get a grip. Do we really want to delve into the cornucopia of terms enshrined in the American English lexicon that aren't "even accurate?"
Maybe I'll get back to you on that as soon as I've worked out why we drive on the parkway and park in the driveway....
Fracking uses salt water under high pressure to open up the formations. You know, the stuff in the oceans.
The "chemicals" are oil, Bentonite clay, to make drilling "mud," water.
The climate change, peak oil types want you walking, like good little serfs, and will invent any lie that matches their compulsion.
“I put those things in my pool!”
Lol, they have been cleaning water for a loooong time now. :)
I believe the experts on site refer to it as gayus and awl.
You know I never thought of it like that. Thanks!
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