Re:History of energy consumption in the United States, 1775–...
by xyzzy21 on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:54AM
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It's BOTH.
You can't run a plastic industry without high density energy - fossil is the best for that short of nuclear. Simple matter of Carnot. No way to fake it or break it.
Feedstocks also ONLY can come from oil. Not even coal works as well. You must have carbon in the supply chain.
Sadly a lot of Soviet-style propaganda and erasure of "inconvenient" information is absolutely happening with every .gov site these days.
You can't run a plastic industry without high density energy - fossil is the best for that short of nuclear. Simple matter of Carnot. No way to fake it or break it.
Feedstocks also ONLY can come from oil. Not even coal works as well. You must have carbon in the supply chain.
Sadly a lot of Soviet-style propaganda and erasure of "inconvenient" information is absolutely happening with every .gov site these days.