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 ...
Some phrases just stick.
We drive on park ways
We park in drive ways
A lot of people…even on FR…believe just that. 🙄
It should always be called “petroleum.”
A pet peeve of mine. It is a purposeful misleading label at this point. It presents construct of a limited resource and it’s a lie.
I agree. It pi$$e$ me off when Elon Musk uses that term.
Petroleum products is a more accurate term.
And Z. Obviously not a CATIA user. ;^)
“Diatoms, subduction, pressure, heat, and time . . .”
And Diatoms are fossils...
Mitch, a good friend of mine is a paleontologist and works with Calcareous Nannofossils for the oil industry. Check out the “SEM Gallery”, pretty cool images of nanofossils.
http://bugware.com/default.html
“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.”
Yep... My friend Mitch owns this company.
http://bugware.com/default.html
I was digging in my backyard yesterday and I dug up a mastodon that had thawed because of global warming. It wasn’t oily.
This is what concerns me about fracking chemicals being pumped into the earth. Will those chemicals prevent creation of more oil?
No. Personal point of view is what matters. No one is trying to be an astrophysicist. Only nerds try to be “technically” accurate while getting even that wrong. It’s why nerds aren’t invited to adult parties.
Exactly.
Nowadays it would bring excommunication.
If Biden prevails, heretics such as Gold would be thrown off the Internet.
BricsCAD. But only 2D cause I’m doing industrial control schematics (and I roll my eyes at people using 3D for control panel layouts). I’m actually an M.E. but I crossed over to the dark (sparky) side 3 decades ago.
Shhhhh….. quit thinking!
Actually, I read some things regarding this back in the early or mid 1980s. It really has never been an area of my studies, or frankly my interest. Still, I have considered it as valid for about that many years.
Still, I wonder about those Tar Pits in L.A. I drove right by them back around 1988, but neither my brother nor my cousin (whom I was chauffeuring) were willing to stop. I have since regretted that missed opportunity.
I think about those critters who were snared there and they died, their carcasses decomposed into something that might over eons have become a crude oil. I dunno, as above, not my area.
Wow, how pointlessly insulting. Way to ruin a fun thread. I think nerds get invited to more parties than you.
“Fossil fuel” is as accurate as labeling EVs as “stone age.”
Coal is commonly referred to as a fossil fuel.
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