Re:Turning CO2 to Stone
by gumby on Sunday January 22, 2017 @06:49PM
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> I was under the assumption that the Earth is not likely to have another carboniferous period.
Well, we are busy recycling that one. All that carbon in the atmosphere will likely eventually precipitate out. On a geological timescale oil is renewable; it's simply that humans don't live that long. I suppose the cockroach civilization 60 megayears hence will be able to power their vehicles that way.
Or, you could be one of the few who believes the abiotic theory of oil production. I'm not one of them!
Re:Turning CO2 to Stone
by snaily on Sunday January 22, 2017 @07:53PM
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A sibling comment points out that back in the carboniferous period, no organisms had enzymes to break down wood. Nowadays, dead wood rots, releasing co2 back into the atmosphere.
Well, we are busy recycling that one. All that carbon in the atmosphere will likely eventually precipitate out. On a geological timescale oil is renewable; it's simply that humans don't live that long. I suppose the cockroach civilization 60 megayears hence will be able to power their vehicles that way.
Or, you could be one of the few who believes the abiotic theory of oil production. I'm not one of them!