I recently learned that oil is mostly composed of algae and phytoplankton capturing carbon out the atmosphere thousands of years ago. Later the organisms fall to the bottom of the ocean and through time turn into crude hydrocarbons. So why do we not attempt to create the same crude oil by using alge with waste water from water processing plants?
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I don’t know about oil but the way coal was produced needed specific environmental conditions which are no longer present therefore we have 100% of the coal we will ever have. To make it worse I think one of the conditions was to not have a process of biodegradation with fungus and bacteria taking a while to realise the excess of new potential food.
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