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Originally Posted by thejeff
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Originally Posted by MaxWilson
Well, the supply actually isn't exactly *finite* because it's renewable (Changing World Technologies still has their plant in Carthage, Missouri making oil from turkey guts, although it's had business problems and public-image problems and may not be profitable). Although obviously in order to make more fossil fuels you'd need energy input, and fusion power (which locally or in the sun) is one of the only ways to supply that energy long-term. And at that point, fossil fuels are only a distribution mechanism useful mainly for off-grid components (automobiles), and you might consider another energy distribution medium like fuel cells.
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The various Biofuel processes have their issues, but some are promising. They are not, in any sense of the term, "fossil fuels". |
Well, they are petrochemicals. Is this a semantic quibble about the fact that they don't come from fossils, or are you claiming that the oil produced from thermal depolymerization (or whatever CWT is calling it nowadays) is chemically different from regular light crude? If so, can you substantiate that claim?
-Max
Edit: P.S. Soyweiser, you may be about to see something you thought was impossible. If thejeff says something like, 'Yes, fossil fuel light crude is 30-50 carbons in length and TDP only produces short-chain hydrocarbons about 18 carbons long,' I will say, 'Oh. I didn't know that. My understanding was that it was the same as oil from oil wells, after refinement.' Or perhaps thejeff will say, 'Oh. I didn't know that was possible.'
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