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[–] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (1 children)

we are addicted to foreign ichor of dead gods

[–] xkbx@startrek.website 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

we all do, but I'm this economy?

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's more like, hey, this stuff burns and we don't have to wring out a whale to get it!

[–] Eheran@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

The text is full of nonsense... But why not have a strong opinion based on feelings and spread it online? Works so well for humanity.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

That is why I just harness the power of the sun, like a true god would.

Real and straight.

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

It's all a spectrum. You start with pure light from the sun and air making sugar in plants, then the sugar is condensed into plant fiber then the plant fiber is squished into the ground for millions of years and the carbon in the fiber is squeezed into pure carbon, and you get pure dark beautiful dry coal. Then you take ground up dinosaur guts and throw them in a pit and you get gross mixed crude oil with everything in it. But it's all just carbon.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

iirc charcoal (coal made from wood) was used first, then stonecoal, then oil

so it was a continuous transition. they didn't just wake up one day and started digging

[–] InfiniteStruggle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is the first I'm seeing "stonecoal" - is that what its really called?

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

idk in german it's called Steinkohle and Holzkohle, literally "stone coal" and "wood coal"

how would you call it then?

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago

This guy would like Octavia Butler