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> What's special about fossil fuel?

Is this a real question?

- just bend down to harvest, nature has done all the work over millions of years

- energy dense as fuck

- reliable, it doesn't matter if you have sun, wind, if it's winter or summer

- easy to store and transport

- can be transformed into fertiliser, which allowed us to feed more people, for cheaper and more easily

- literal building block of everything that made what the world is today: plastics, medicine, synthetic fibers, etc.

- allowed us to transform materials which required high temperatures: metal, glas, etc.

We're quite literally a fossil fuel society...

parent toasty228 1 month ago

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