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 ...
Jeff Chandler? You were 42 in 1961 and you call me a Dinosaur?
Sinclair has the perfect logo for the ESG crowd. A Green dinosaur.
Y’all gotta xerox of this article?
That’s a lot of effort to be pedantic.
> some evidence that simple hydrocarbons form in the absence of any biological processes
I would say you provided more than some. There’s massive, in-our-faces evidence.
Strong delusion finds its way past spiritual matters into simple facts of science and common sense.
Right. The same issue arises in a variety of ways, such as the use of the color red by the media to define Republican voters, and the color blue assigned to Democrats, which was a deliberate ploy on the part of the media, for obvious reasons.
But it is so far gone, it is never going to be changed back, and complaining about it is like barking at the moon.
Same with the use of the word “liberal” to describe milder forms of Leftists, though the word used to describe conservatives in the distant past, and was appropriated by the Left to confuse people. Same thing.
Hahaha...looks like it should be off Route 66 in the Southwest somewhere...:)
Definition of sunrise, as per Merriam-Webster:
1: the apparent rising of the sun above the horizon
also : the accompanying atmospheric effects
2: the time when the upper limb of the sun appears above the horizon as a result of the diurnal rotation of the earth
“Apparent” seems to be key here. We all know the sun doesn’t pop out of the horizon at sunrise or plunge back into it at sundown, but it’s descriptive in appearance, if not in accurate astronomical terms. We do have dawn and dusk for neutral alternatives that eschew the sun altogether, but dawn has been turned into the name of Tony Orlando’s backup group, and I don’t want to know how the race baiters would react to dusk since dusky has been used to describe darker skin tones.
I think I’ll stick to sunrise/sunset which is also a pretty good song about the passing of time.
Call it biofuel and libs will love it.
And whether or not it’s moving is arbitrary anyway. It’s all dependent on your coordinate definition. It’s not like you can go out in space and there’s a giant pair of X and Y axes out there.
It’s starts with a pedantic screed. And gets worse.
Yes the fossils do not create oils but the carcass around it did at one time. As we consume oils from mother earth it is daily creating more as plants and animals die off. Don’t believe me? Watch a puddle of water with dead leaves floating on it next fall. There will be a sheen of oil if you look closely. Yes it takes a bunch to make a gallon but it is replenishing the supply as we speak. It all pools in deposits under the earth waiting to be found and recycled into the system. Mother earth is an amazing thing and nothing like they teach our kiddos.
It’s not dinosaurs. It’s organic material. And it’s pretty easy to see how that’s possible.
“Assault weapons” is my favorite I think because I would love to rifle butt my ex-business partner in the head!
True, especially for scientific facts that are relevant to spiritual matters. Just look at how many people are eager to believe a child in the womb is somehow a dead “clump of cells”, without any actual evidence to support that idea.
yes it is moving maybe not in relationship to us but it is still hauling ass
Maybe just a language nerd. I find stuff like this interesting. I blame George Carlin.
Because the democrats’ coloring books all show dinosaurs as the source of oil.
Right on! Myth made up by oil companies to make it seem like a rare thing, but in fact depleted oil fields have been replenished by seepage coming further down. A renewable resource!!!!!
kind of like zero emission electric vehicles
Right on! Myth made up by oil companies to make it seem like a rare thing, but in fact depleted oil fields have been replenished by seepage coming further down. A renewable resource!!!!!
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