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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“Renewable” is defined as “replenished on a timescale similar to that in which it is consumed”. Since oil has taken hundreds of millions of years to form and has been extracted and used in around a century, this is why it’s considered non-renewable.
If we waited long enough then potentially yes, some of today’s organisms would become fossil fuels but it will take a LONG time.
Oil is totally renewable. There’s plenty of places where oil is being created as we speak. Offshore of major rivers like the Mississippi and Colorado for instance.
Problem is, we’re using it up about a million times faster than it’s being created. We’re well on track to use up all the useful oil created in the past 300 million years within 200 years.
Oil is totally renewable. There’s plenty of places where oil is being created as we speak. Offshore of major rivers like the Mississippi and Colorado for instance.
Problem is, we’re using it up about a million times faster than it’s being created. We’re well on track to use up all the useful oil created in the past 300 million years within 200 years.
Oil is totally renewable. There’s plenty of places where oil is being created as we speak. Offshore of major rivers like the Mississippi and Colorado for instance.
Problem is, we’re using it up about a million times faster than it’s being created. We’re well on track to use up all the useful oil created in the past 300 million years within 200 years.
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.
Renewable? Yes.
But not until humanity has disappeared. It will take millions of years, and geologic ages before carbon rich deposits are buried, pressurized, and heated to become oil.
Renewable? Yes.
But not until humanity has disappeared. It will take millions of years, and geologic ages before carbon rich deposits are buried, pressurized, and heated to become oil.
Renewable? Yes.
But not until humanity has disappeared. It will take millions of years, and geologic ages before carbon rich deposits are buried, pressurized, and heated to become oil.
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.
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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