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What do you mean? It took millions of years to "make" them, and the same initial conditions can not be recreated, either.
by notanzaiiswear 5y ago
What do you mean? It took millions of years to "make" them, and the same initial conditions can not be recreated, either.
- ben_w 5y agoNature wasn’t trying. The pressure, heat, and chemical environment that turns plants into coal, oil, and gas can be tuned to make the process much faster if desired. What’s the functional difference between 1kg of coal and 1kg of charcoal, for example? And we can also extract CO2 from the air, pass it through the Sabatier process to get methane, then do more chemistry to get long chain hydrocarbons. Musk is planning to do this for his rockets.