Since fossil fuels takes million of years to form..
Question:
Is the earth still able to make fuel, say if the organic dies today and 10 million years later, will we get oil?
Is the earth still able to make fuel, say if the organic dies today and 10 million years later, will we get oil?
Leanan wrote:
We can speed up the process in the lab. In fact, there's a plant that's been in the news lately that turns turkey parts into oil. But it's only energy efficient because we're raising turkeys anyway, for other reasons.
The thing about oil is that incredible amounts of energy went into making it...but we didn't have to provide that energy. It was provided by prehistoric sunshine and the forces of the earth. All we have to do is dig it up. We can make our own oil, but it's never going to provide the bounty that natural oil has.
a 175lb (79kg) man could, theoretically, yield 38lb of oil, 7lb of gas, 7lb of minerals and carbon and 123lb of sterilised water. More practically, 100lb (45kg) of sewage becomes 26lb (11kg) of oil, 9lb of gas, 8lb of minerals and carbon and 57lb of water.
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