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**lapInsalm** · 09-01-2012, 12:47 PM

I love the word plays you played; it's what makes us human, and you seem to enjoy it as much as I do. I'm sure some of us can appreciate the unique humor in it.

As for fossil fuel.

Burning dinosaurs?

Were dinosaurs really that cheap to use as fuel? I thought that museums would pay a lot to get dinosaurs.

Yes, in a way, if we can use the word dinosaurs to represent geological remains that retain a high ratio of hydro-carbon content. For example

1. crude oil is one kind of fossil fuel. From animal planktons ?
2. coal is another kind of fossil fuel. From ferns of the geological period ?

Often times miners find fossils embedded within natural coal, but there's so many that one finds. In certain areas, there are so many fossils that cracking open rocks or bedrocks will often produce fossils. They are not a rarity as one might think. As for brontosaurus or tyranosaurus rex being part of crude oil, I believe there is a possibility as them also being trapped in the geological layers, decomposed, and contributing to the hydro-carbon gumbo soup we call petroleum, although compared to the planktons the ratio would be negligible, maybe less than 1% ?

As for sun energy.

Er... Humans have been using sun energy for thousands of years in many different kind of forms. Well, with the exception of

1. potential energy from falling objects such as meterorites
2. geothermal energy rising thru the earth crust, volcanoes, plated junctions, and onsen
3. artificially created nuclear reaction

all useable energy comes from the sun, some being stored in photosynthetic plants with chlorophylls. We only get so much each day, and that stored in plants and animals we eat sustain us day by day. That stored in the fossil fuels accumulated from billions of yrs ago are what we normally call fossil fuel.

Because we have been plundering the billions of years of sun linght stored in the fossils and burning them all at once, we may have the illusion that we have a huge, cheap energy source. How wrong we are !
When we use them all up, we will scratch our heads and ask, what happened ? Why is life so hard for us ? Just to keep warm, we may have to huddle up with our worst enemies so as not to freeze to death.

So you do have a point; we have been using sun light for sun bathing, drying the fish and laundry. Sterilizing, whitening, heating.
But with the discovery of fire and controlling it, we have entered a uniue age of energy usage; burning recent sun-light (wood, grass, paper) --> old sun-light (coal, petroleum).

09-01-2012, 12:47 PM	#5
lapInsalm Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 409 Senior Member	I love the word plays you played; it's what makes us human, and you seem to enjoy it as much as I do. I'm sure some of us can appreciate the unique humor in it. As for fossil fuel. Burning dinosaurs? Were dinosaurs really that cheap to use as fuel? I thought that museums would pay a lot to get dinosaurs. Yes, in a way, if we can use the word dinosaurs to represent geological remains that retain a high ratio of hydro-carbon content. For example 1. crude oil is one kind of fossil fuel. From animal planktons ? 2. coal is another kind of fossil fuel. From ferns of the geological period ? Often times miners find fossils embedded within natural coal, but there's so many that one finds. In certain areas, there are so many fossils that cracking open rocks or bedrocks will often produce fossils. They are not a rarity as one might think. As for brontosaurus or tyranosaurus rex being part of crude oil, I believe there is a possibility as them also being trapped in the geological layers, decomposed, and contributing to the hydro-carbon gumbo soup we call petroleum, although compared to the planktons the ratio would be negligible, maybe less than 1% ? As for sun energy. Er... Humans have been using sun energy for thousands of years in many different kind of forms. Well, with the exception of 1. potential energy from falling objects such as meterorites 2. geothermal energy rising thru the earth crust, volcanoes, plated junctions, and onsen 3. artificially created nuclear reaction all useable energy comes from the sun, some being stored in photosynthetic plants with chlorophylls. We only get so much each day, and that stored in plants and animals we eat sustain us day by day. That stored in the fossil fuels accumulated from billions of yrs ago are what we normally call fossil fuel. Because we have been plundering the billions of years of sun linght stored in the fossils and burning them all at once, we may have the illusion that we have a huge, cheap energy source. How wrong we are ! When we use them all up, we will scratch our heads and ask, what happened ? Why is life so hard for us ? Just to keep warm, we may have to huddle up with our worst enemies so as not to freeze to death. So you do have a point; we have been using sun light for sun bathing, drying the fish and laundry. Sterilizing, whitening, heating. But with the discovery of fire and controlling it, we have entered a uniue age of energy usage; burning recent sun-light (wood, grass, paper) --> old sun-light (coal, petroleum).
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