Eli5 of we can make lab diamonds on a large scale why can’t we do the same for oil and gas.

Question

Eli5 of we can make lab diamonds on a large scale why can’t we do the same for oil and gas.

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Answer 1

Making a diamond is like making a sand castle with a bucket. All the grains align themselves and stick together because they are all the same, like the carbon atoms in a diamond.

Making oil is more like making a cake shaped like Ironman, because oil is made of a long chain of molecules made of atoms, all different and having to be fit together in a process that originally required a living organism to sequence it all before dying and stashing it underground.