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The Re-Beginning Of Fossil Fuels
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The Re-Beginning Of Fossil Fuels
I've got tanks in my back garden in which I'm growing phytoplankton and zooplankton.  I've discovered a method to speed up the process that turns these into petroleum.  I can't tell you what the method is, but it should cut production time by 50%

So, in 350 million years or so...free petrol for everyone!

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: The Re-Beginning Of Fossil Fuels
(November 16, 2019 at 1:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I've got tanks in my back garden in which I'm growing phytoplankton and zooplankton.  I've discovered a method to speed up the process that turns these into petroleum.  I can't tell you what the method is, but it should cut production time by 50%

So, in 350 million years or so...free petrol for everyone!

Boru

I'll mark that on my calendar.
  
“If you are the smartest person in the room, then you are in the wrong room.” — Confucius
                                      
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RE: The Re-Beginning Of Fossil Fuels
Boru, you have read Hal Clement's Needle?
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RE: The Re-Beginning Of Fossil Fuels
(November 16, 2019 at 3:11 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Boru, you have read Hal Clement's Needle?

Doesn't ring a bell.  Recommend it?

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: The Re-Beginning Of Fossil Fuels
It was fun. It's based on a group of atolls where they're growing algae to make fuel.

Oh, and there's a crashed spaceship just off the reef.
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RE: The Re-Beginning Of Fossil Fuels
(November 16, 2019 at 4:42 pm)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: It was fun. It's based on a group of atolls where they're growing algae to make fuel.

Oh, and there's a crashed spaceship just off the reef.

Thanks.  I'll have a look.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: The Re-Beginning Of Fossil Fuels
(November 16, 2019 at 1:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I've got tanks in my back garden in which I'm growing phytoplankton and zooplankton.  I've discovered a method to speed up the process that turns these into petroleum.  I can't tell you what the method is, but it should cut production time by 50%

So, in 350 million years or so...free petrol for everyone!

Boru

It does not take 350 million years for natural processes to turn stuff into fossils fuel.   Under favorable circumstances it can be as few as a few thousand years.    Your process requires enormous improvement to keep pace with dirt.
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RE: The Re-Beginning Of Fossil Fuels
(November 16, 2019 at 5:07 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(November 16, 2019 at 1:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I've got tanks in my back garden in which I'm growing phytoplankton and zooplankton.  I've discovered a method to speed up the process that turns these into petroleum.  I can't tell you what the method is, but it should cut production time by 50%

So, in 350 million years or so...free petrol for everyone!

Boru

It does not take 350 million years for natural processes to turn stuff into fossils fuel.   Under favorable circumstances it can be as few as a few thousand years.    Your process requires enormous improvement to keep pace with dirt.

It depends on the fuel, and I specified petroleum.

https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Oil_formation

Quote:The formation of oil takes a significant amount of time with oil beginning to form millions of years ago. 70% of oil deposits existing today were formed in the Mesozoic age (252 to 66 million years ago), 20% were formed in the Cenozoic age (65 million years ago), and only 10% were formed in the Paleozoic age (541 to 252 million years ago).

I went high-end because I'm doing this in my garden (I'll expand once my government grant is approved).  I wasn't able to find a source for fossil fuels forming in 'a few thousand years'.  Got a link?

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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RE: The Re-Beginning Of Fossil Fuels
(November 16, 2019 at 5:07 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote:
(November 16, 2019 at 1:54 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I've got tanks in my back garden in which I'm growing phytoplankton and zooplankton.  I've discovered a method to speed up the process that turns these into petroleum.  I can't tell you what the method is, but it should cut production time by 50%

So, in 350 million years or so...free petrol for everyone!

Boru

It does not take 350 million years for natural processes to turn stuff into fossils fuel.   Under favorable circumstances it can be as few as a few thousand years.    Your process requires enormous improvement to keep pace with dirt.

Big talk, Mr. I Dozed Through the Carboniferous.
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