Where Stuff Comes From

8 Replies to “Where Stuff Comes From”

1. Not zero, not ever.

2. Published: Oct. 20, 2021 … and Joe Bidinh still hasn’t read, or comprehended this article. Nor has the WEF. Or the EU. Or Extinction Acceleration (not Rebellion).

3. The war against carbon is, essentially, a war against life. Too many walking brain dead to figure that out. Not only will they cease to exist, but they will enthusiastically take us with them.

   1. Correct MikeT. I have been calling it suicide.

4. Methane occurs naturally, without the need of some life form to make it.
   You can find the stuff all over the universe.
   Unlike Oil and coal.
   Pretty much all the oil and coal in the world come from CO2 in the atmosphere, and was lost to the carbon cycle when sequestered in the ground. About 0.1% of the CO2 that was in the early atmosphere wound up as fossil fuel, and a large percentage of it is out of reach, so even if we burned every scrap of coal and oil, we’d wind up with less than 1% CO2 in the air, that can be lived with.
   Not so for methane. If we burned all the methane, both in the ground and in clathrates, we could easily wind up with levels of CO2 that are fatally toxic.

5. Wood is a fossil fuel.

   Not directly, but wood grows on trees. To convert the tree into something practical requires what?

   Tools.

   How do you make these tools? From steel using processes that require fossil fuels.

   So let us be big picture pragmatic. Unless you are wearing animal skins taken from a beast you hunted with your stone axe and sleeping on a bed of hand gathered grasses, you are using something that used fossil fuels to produce.

   That includes your solar and wind generated electricity.

   Get behind fossil fuels, or get naked and live in caves.

6. I suspect a good amount of coal actually came from peat.

   1. All coal came from peat.