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‘Fossil Fuels’ do not exist: Why do we keep using a term that isn't even accurate?
American Thinker ^ | 04/29/2022 | Bob Ryan

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 ...


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To: CodeToad

Except the sun isn’t moving. Mechanical accuracy would be “horizon lower” or something like that. But that’s not as smooth. Just like “fossil fuels”, we know they aren’t fossils, we’ve known it for a long time. But it’s got better feel than “petroleum”. So the term sticks. Oh I just remembered another example: movie trailers. They got called that because they used to be after the movie, but they eventually realized nobody stays after for commercials and put them before the movie, but we still call them trailers.


21 posted on 04/29/2022 8:27:37 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: hflynn

I don’t like being called a Old Fossil.

See, you won’t go to dust, you will go to OIL.


22 posted on 04/29/2022 8:28:09 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: rellimpank

“”Gold theorized that since petroleum and its component hydrocarbons were present across the entire universe, there was no reason to believe “that on Earth they must be biological in origin”.[39] Gold proposed that fuels were trapped inside the core of the Earth in randomized molecular form nearly 4.5 billion years ago. Over time, the extreme heat of the core “sweated” the rocks that contained these molecules, pushing them up through the porous layers of the Earth. As they move up toward the surface, the hydrocarbons fueled the development of large microbial colonies, which served as the basis for life on Earth. The migrating fossil fuels collect biological remnants before becoming trapped in deep underground reservoirs.[39] Soon after Gold started publishing his theories, researchers discovered a number of ecosystems functioning under “conditions of heat and pressure once thought impossible to sustain life”. In addition, Gold discovered that the location of major oil-producing regions in the Middle East and southeast Asia was defined by large scale patterns in surface geology and topography, such as deep fault lines. He also pointed to the abundance of helium in oil and gas reserves as evidence for “a deep source of the hydrocarbons”.[40] Moreover, a few oil reserves thought to have been exhausted were suddenly generating vast amounts of crude oil.[42] From this, Gold proposed that the Earth may possess a virtually endless supply – suggesting as much as “at least 500 million years’ worth of gas” – of fossil fuels.[43][44]

Gold was accused of plagiarizing the abiogenic theory from Soviet geologists who first published it in the 1950s, but the accusations were refuted.[45][46] After first publishing his views on abiogenic petroleum in 1979, Gold began finding the papers on the subject by Soviet geologists and had them translated. He was both disappointed (that his ideas were not original) and delighted (because such independent formulation of these ideas added weight to the hypothesis). He always credited the Soviet work once he knew about it.[4] His 1987 book Power from the Earth devoted five pages to describing important Russian contributions to the field, including those by Mendeleev, Sokoloff, Vernadsky, Kudryavtsev, Beskrovny, Porfir’ev, Kravtsov, Kropotkin, Valyaev, Voronoy, and Chekaliuk.[45]”


23 posted on 04/29/2022 8:28:43 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: Erik Latranyi

HA! Good one.


24 posted on 04/29/2022 8:28:49 AM PDT by WXRGina
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To: SeekAndFind

Abiotic bump.

5.56mm


25 posted on 04/29/2022 8:28:58 AM PDT by M Kehoe (Quid Pro Joe and the Ho need to go.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fossil fuels is part of the Peak Oil fraud science used to end the use of oil which is a mineral. The last thing Communism wants you to know is the world is floating on a hundred years of oil.


26 posted on 04/29/2022 8:28:59 AM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: discostu

It is easier than saying, ‘I can’t wait until the earth rotates enough to see the sun again.’


27 posted on 04/29/2022 8:29:53 AM PDT by taterjay
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To: SeekAndFind

The moons of Jupiter have giant lakes of liquid methane and ethane (ie. natural gas)

There’s no dead dinosaurs or eons of built-up plankton there.


28 posted on 04/29/2022 8:30:18 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess it’s like comic books. Many of them don’t even try to be funny.


29 posted on 04/29/2022 8:30:34 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (“...we would live very well without Facebook."-B.LeMaire)
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To: Erik Latranyi
*Non GMO & Glutin Free.

The alcohol in our gasoline is made with GMO corn.

30 posted on 04/29/2022 8:33:03 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Democrat = party of treason

Petroleum

Petra= rock
Oleo=fat/ oil

Petroleum, rock oil.

There are scientific papers on this topic. Mainstream “ knowledge” (science) either ignores it or vilifies it.

The ancients knew something maybe.


31 posted on 04/29/2022 8:33:07 AM PDT by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War" )
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s not that big a deal. My brother sent me some LaRouche, I think, video of a guy going on and on about this, like it was an epiphany.

Think whale oil and pig fat and it starts to make sense. Similar use for something dug out of the ground and not living, as they deduced, any more.


32 posted on 04/29/2022 8:33:11 AM PDT by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: discostu

The left appends the prefix “so called” to terms they dispute (”partial birth abortion” “don’t say gay bill”). Just demand that “fossil fuels” be preceded by “so called” and everybody’s happy.


33 posted on 04/29/2022 8:35:22 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: FarCenter


On the other hand, coal, oil and gas are all derived from buried organic materials that were once living creatures”

WRONG!

“This information backs up the idea that Earth is actually an oil-producing machine. We call energy sources such as crude oil and natural gas fossil fuels based on the assumption that they are the products of decaying organisms, maybe even dinosaurs themselves. But the label is a misnomer. Research from the last decade found that hydrocarbons are synthesized abiotically.”

https://www.investors.com/politics/commentary/we-are-not-running-out-of-oil-earth-produces-crude/


34 posted on 04/29/2022 8:36:00 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: Vendome

Okay, so the “organic” origin of petroleum is a hypothesis, not a proven fact. The hypothesis isn’t the origin of crude oil is “dead dinosaurs” per se, but a rather layer upon layer of remains of all sorts of dead plant and animal life. The hypothesis is widely accepted, but some skeptics point out that petroleum has been found deeper (e.g., 6 miles down) than any true fossil ever has.


35 posted on 04/29/2022 8:36:12 AM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: SeekAndFind

To-MAY-to, to-MAH-to...

Common usage has installed the term.


36 posted on 04/29/2022 8:37:43 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Democrat = party of treason

There’s two theories on the matter, what you are describing is the “abiogenesis” theory, which isn’t widely accepted right now.

There is some evidence that simple hydrocarbons form in the absence of any biological processes. Saturn’s moon Titan has never had any life on it, and it has a literal sea of methane. Tholins are another category of simple hydrocarbons that are found on several other dead moons where they couldn’t have originated from biomatter. However, we don’t actually have any real evidence that the kind of complex hydrocarbons we find in Earth’s deposits can form naturally without any biological matter as a “starter”. So the theory still has some hurdles to get over.


37 posted on 04/29/2022 8:38:14 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Erik Latranyi

yes. organic fuel or earth juice.

it is a by product of all the carbon on the earth being processed into other things.

earth juice.


38 posted on 04/29/2022 8:40:25 AM PDT by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: Macoozie
Diatoms, subduction, pressure, heat, and time . . .

Diatoms, former living things. So fossil is not completely incorrect.

39 posted on 04/29/2022 8:41:09 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

diatoms (plural noun)
a single-celled alga which has a cell wall of silica. Many kinds are planktonic, and extensive fossil deposits have been found.


40 posted on 04/29/2022 8:42:12 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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