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 ...
The Queens English [sic]
Why do we still call it “sunrise” even though we know the sun isn’t actually moving?
Some phrases just stick.
I’ve always wondered how a bunch of dinosaurs got together and conveniently died in the same spot, miles below earths surface...
Sunrise is the sun rising over the horizon. It makes sense. Duh.
I remember reading an article a decade ago about how oil pumped out of the ground is more likely a byproduct of whatever is going on inside the earths core than it is the remains of ancient forest growth or whatever. That they only thought it was from old growth because it had remains of that kind of stuff in it but now they think the fluid is just picking up that crap as it moves into open areas and cracks underneath the earth’s surface...
I have been saying this since I signed up here in 04....
There is no such a thing as a fossil fuel
Right! I’ve been saying this for a long time—that we should quit calling it “fossil fuel.” The earth produces oil. The false term “fossil fuel” implies that we’ll run out of it.
#dlm. Dino Lives Matter. Again I ask. Just how many friggin’ dinosaurs were there anyway? How many gallons of crude are derived from just one dino? Anyone? Bueller?
Hydrocarbons is too hard...
Not sure if you’re being serious or sarcastic-but the earth is rotating, so the sun isn’t rising over anything, duh.
Oil?
Diatoms, subduction, pressure, heat, and time . . .
Go old school, “first light” and “last light”.
—dinosaurs didn’t have anything to do with it—
We should call it “organic fuel”
Indeed, because it is.
On the other hand, coal, oil and gas are all derived from buried organic materials that were once living creatures.
-check this out but realize he wasn’t believed by eeverybody—
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold
Let’s raise dinosaurs. They are an densely packed sustainable source of energy for the future.
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