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By that logic, fossil fuel is a storage medium too. Solar energy was used as the energy source to make fossil fuel.
by kirubakaran 16y ago
By that logic, fossil fuel is a storage medium too. Solar energy was used as the energy source to make fossil fuel.
- aarontait 16y agoTrue, with the difference being humans (and our predecessors) had to wait hundreds of thousands of years for the fossil fuels to form under the immense pressure (and additional energy input) of the earth.
- dtby 16y agoAnd you believe that the value of this observation is what, exactly? That we are wasting energy which has been stored and untapped for hundreds of thousands of years? Do we really expect that our ancestors will be better able to exploit this value than we are... without our given expliotation? Will this be true forever? Should we just let that stored energy remain forever? Ceteris parabis, we will extract exactly as much value from our ancestors as makes sense. And our ancestors will do exactly the same. I do not begrudge them that any mire than I begrudge us this current state of affairs.