For Those Interested in Archaeology

"Fossil" fuel is fuel from the "fossils" of plants that were laid down during the Carboniferous Age. (Carbon, carbon-based fuel, mostly petroleum.) This was the age when plants went nuts. Buried and left to rot without oxygen, it turned into petroleum. Large grazers started to appear to take advantage of all that salad.

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Oil is a fossil fuel that was formed over millions of years from the remains of organic matter. The majority of oil was formed during the Mesozoic era, which was between 252 and 66 million years ago.
How oil is formed

1. Organic matter accumulates: Dead organisms, like plankton and algae, accumulate on the ocean floor.
2. Sedimentation: The organic matter is buried under layers of sand, silt, and rock.
3. Heat and pressure: The weight of the Earth's crust puts pressure on the buried organic matter.
4. Diagenesis: The organic matter is converted into kerogen, a waxy substance.
5. Catagenesis: The kerogen is broken down further through high temperatures, creating oil.

Oil deposits

• Mesozoic era: 70% of oil deposits were formed during this time.
• Cenozoic era: 20% of oil deposits were formed during this time.
• Paleozoic era: 10% of oil deposits were formed during this time.

As you can see we haven't made any new petroleum for a while. We are aggressively seeking undiscovered deposits, but they're the same age as the other stuff.

 

More like charcoal, heat and pressure bake the plant material down in a tight mass with relatively lots of energy available per pound. Back in the day locomotives burned wood, but the waste (ashes) and smaller return for the weight (larger loads of wood had to be hauled in comparison to coal for the same speed/distance). Coal was an intermediate fuel, internal combustion engines had to be developed before trains really hit their stride. These days you don't see a separate vehicle for the fuel used by diesel engines, onboard storage is sufficient for most trips between refueling points.

 

More like charcoal, heat and pressure bake the plant material down in a tight mass with relatively lots of energy available per pound. Back in the day locomotives burned wood, but the waste (ashes) and smaller return for the weight (larger loads of wood had to be hauled in comparison to coal for the same speed/distance). Coal was an intermediate fuel, internal combustion engines had to be developed before trains really hit their stride. These days you don't see a separate vehicle for the fuel used by diesel engines, onboard storage is sufficient for most trips between refueling points.

 

More like charcoal, heat and pressure bake the plant material down in a tight mass with relatively lots of energy available per pound. Back in the day locomotives burned wood, but the waste (ashes) and smaller return for the weight (larger loads of wood had to be hauled in comparison to coal for the same speed/distance). Coal was an intermediate fuel, internal combustion engines had to be developed before trains really hit their stride. These days you don't see a separate vehicle for the fuel used by diesel engines, onboard storage is sufficient for most trips between refueling points.

 

More like charcoal, heat and pressure bake the plant material down in a tight mass with relatively lots of energy available per pound. Back in the day locomotives burned wood, but the waste (ashes) and smaller return for the weight (larger loads of wood had to be hauled in comparison to coal for the same speed/distance). Coal was an intermediate fuel, internal combustion engines had to be developed before trains really hit their stride. These days you don't see a separate vehicle for the fuel used by diesel engines, onboard storage is sufficient for most trips between refueling points.

 

More like charcoal, heat and pressure bake the plant material down in a tight mass with relatively lots of energy available per pound. Back in the day locomotives burned wood, but the waste (ashes) and smaller return for the weight (larger loads of wood had to be hauled in comparison to coal for the same speed/distance). Coal was an intermediate fuel, internal combustion engines had to be developed before trains really hit their stride. These days you don't see a separate vehicle for the fuel used by diesel engines, onboard storage is sufficient for most trips between refueling points.

 

More like charcoal, heat and pressure bake the plant material down in a tight mass with relatively lots of energy available per pound. Back in the day locomotives burned wood, but the waste (ashes) and smaller return for the weight (larger loads of wood had to be hauled in comparison to coal for the same speed/distance). Coal was an intermediate fuel, internal combustion engines had to be developed before trains really hit their stride. These days you don't see a separate vehicle for the fuel used by diesel engines, onboard storage is sufficient for most trips between refueling points.

 

Wells work in porous rock. Some rock isn't porous. The non-porous rock effectively blocks the drill hole from the water table. This is why test holes are needed. You could have a layer of non-porous rock with porous rock above and below it. If the drill operators don't know their geology they'll fail to provide a working water well.

 

FYI, AI says "The term “fossil fuel” was not created by American businessman J.D. Rockefeller to induce the idea of scarcity for oil. The earliest occurrence of the term features in a book published in 1759 by German chemist Caspar Neumann."

I was just a kid then.

 

First day of Spring, symbolic of rebirth. Christmas is celebrated on December 25 because it was the traditional date of the winter solstice in the Roman Empire. Early Christians adopted this date to celebrate Jesus' birth.

Point of fact, nobody knows the date.

 

Months are not a natural division, they're a human construct, people decide how many months there are in a year. The Earth goes around the sun. A year, one orbit of the Sun, takes 365.2421988 days for Earth. A Pluto year is ~248 Earth years.