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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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

The benefit of fossil fuels is that it has potential energy.

Consider this analogy. If instead we found a vein of Lithium ion batteries. That would be so much cheaper to mine up and sell, than making our own batteries.

Synthetic oil is possible, but you still need to get the equivalent energy into the material.