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Re:The Silurian Hypothesis by FrustratedMonky on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @08:48AM (#42115427)
Has someone done the math on what Hydrocarbons (coil, oil) would have been available 60 million years ago?

Would they have been using the same deposits we are suing, or would new deposits have formed over the last 60 million years?

Or could they have depleted their own, but what was un-usable 60 million years ago, have become usable today. Like something that was marsh land 60 million years ago, be coal today?

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Re:The Silurian Hypothesis by yencabulator on Tuesday November 12, 2024 @03:20PM (#42119286)
Good thought but our coal is peat from 300-350 M year ago. Much of it would have probably been "ready" 60 M years ago already.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboniferous

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