It's all a spectrum. You start with pure light from the sun and air making sugar in plants, then the sugar is condensed into plant fiber then the plant fiber is squished into the ground for millions of years and the carbon in the fiber is squeezed into pure carbon, and you get pure dark beautiful dry coal. Then you take ground up dinosaur guts and throw them in a pit and you get gross mixed crude oil with everything in it. But it's all just carbon.
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abbotsbury@lemmy.world · 63 pts · 136d
we are addicted to foreign ichor of dead gods
xkbx@startrek.website · 17 pts · 136d
like whale cum
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 136d
we all do, but I'm this economy?
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 136d
It's more like, hey, this stuff burns and we don't have to wring out a whale to get it!
Eheran@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 136d
The text is full of nonsense... But why not have a strong opinion based on feelings and spread it online? Works so well for humanity.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org · 11 pts · 136d
That is why I just harness the power of the sun, like a true god would.
WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 136d
Real and straight.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 135d
iirc charcoal (coal made from wood) was used first, then stonecoal, then oil
so it was a continuous transition. they didn't just wake up one day and started digging
InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 129d
This is the first I'm seeing "stonecoal" - is that what its really called?
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 129d
idk in german it's called Steinkohle and Holzkohle, literally "stone coal" and "wood coal"
how would you call it then?
thethunderwolf@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 44d
in english the rock kind is just "coal", and the wood kind is "charcoal"
MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 136d
It's all a spectrum. You start with pure light from the sun and air making sugar in plants, then the sugar is condensed into plant fiber then the plant fiber is squished into the ground for millions of years and the carbon in the fiber is squeezed into pure carbon, and you get pure dark beautiful dry coal. Then you take ground up dinosaur guts and throw them in a pit and you get gross mixed crude oil with everything in it. But it's all just carbon.
Wicked@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 46d
Oil is sentient.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 136d
This guy would like Octavia Butler