Excellent info, thanks, Thomas. Amazing 80 feet tall seams of coal! If you haven't seen Fletcher Prouty's take, here's what Mr. X has to say: https://youtu.be/zSff0pwc1Xc?si=IENflpAsfQT_lPVg . He was the representative of the railroad industry at government energy seminars, since he worked for Amtrak. He points out that the definition of 'organic' was changed in an 1892 convention in Geneva, and that fossils are not found below 16k feet but that oil is drilled way below that. And of course Rockefeller's Standard Oil controlled much of the industry as well as the resultant petrochemicals used for Big Pharma, and also the petrochemicals used for Big Ag. Problem, reaction, solution.
There are two additional theories that you came close to inferring without actually stating that are worth knowing about. One theory has it that fossil fuels comes about as a chemical process involving heat and pressure and duration of three ingredients: water, limestone, and iron oxide. This Theory gains traction owing to a laboratory experiment replicating the use of these ingredients and factors producing hydrocarbons as the result. The second theory was documented in a book that was published in the 1950s and that I got from the Carnegie institute in Washington DC devoted to Chlorella. When Chlorella algae subsists on nitrogen starved conditions, instead of storing its solar absorption of energy in the form of protein, it stores it in the form of oils that resemble petroleum hydrocarbons in their chemical makeup. This lends Credence to the possibility of growing our oil in the Southwest desert areas of the United States using reclaimed water. People have already discussed the likelihood of creating oil Rich algae by the use of this method for the purposes of manufacturing biodiesel. In fact, they have postulated that there is plenty of acreage in the Southwest desert of the United States to create all the oil we need if we converted all of our engines over to diesel engines to accommodate biodiesel fuel. So I have to agree with you, based on these two theories, that fossil fuels is a funny term that deserves to be buried alive!
Excellent info, thanks, Thomas. Amazing 80 feet tall seams of coal! If you haven't seen Fletcher Prouty's take, here's what Mr. X has to say: https://youtu.be/zSff0pwc1Xc?si=IENflpAsfQT_lPVg . He was the representative of the railroad industry at government energy seminars, since he worked for Amtrak. He points out that the definition of 'organic' was changed in an 1892 convention in Geneva, and that fossils are not found below 16k feet but that oil is drilled way below that. And of course Rockefeller's Standard Oil controlled much of the industry as well as the resultant petrochemicals used for Big Pharma, and also the petrochemicals used for Big Ag. Problem, reaction, solution.
There are two additional theories that you came close to inferring without actually stating that are worth knowing about. One theory has it that fossil fuels comes about as a chemical process involving heat and pressure and duration of three ingredients: water, limestone, and iron oxide. This Theory gains traction owing to a laboratory experiment replicating the use of these ingredients and factors producing hydrocarbons as the result. The second theory was documented in a book that was published in the 1950s and that I got from the Carnegie institute in Washington DC devoted to Chlorella. When Chlorella algae subsists on nitrogen starved conditions, instead of storing its solar absorption of energy in the form of protein, it stores it in the form of oils that resemble petroleum hydrocarbons in their chemical makeup. This lends Credence to the possibility of growing our oil in the Southwest desert areas of the United States using reclaimed water. People have already discussed the likelihood of creating oil Rich algae by the use of this method for the purposes of manufacturing biodiesel. In fact, they have postulated that there is plenty of acreage in the Southwest desert of the United States to create all the oil we need if we converted all of our engines over to diesel engines to accommodate biodiesel fuel. So I have to agree with you, based on these two theories, that fossil fuels is a funny term that deserves to be buried alive!