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[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I love this fact, and am curious where you learned it?

[-] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago

I learned it nearly 30 years ago in school. I just did a search and found a link about it, though.

Also, seems that either I remembered wrongly, or my teacher made a mistake, but it seems it was most of the worlds coal; not oil, that came from all the piles of trees from that period.

https://www.thorogood.co.uk/treevolution-how-trees-came-first-and-rot-came-later-in-earths-deep-past/

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Correct. In theory, we could make more oil in the lab. We cannot make more coal, because the wood will get broken down by bacteria far before it turns to peat, lignite, sub-bituminous, or bituminous coal, and much less anthracite.

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