Oil 101: 1/14
“Most people’s mental image of oil comes from a cartoon of dead dinosaurs turning into goo, which we put in our car.
In reality, oil formed from dead marine phytoplankton, algae that captured solar energy tens of millions of years ago, that was then compressed by heat and pressure over geological time, creating a super energy-dense liquid substance, which we refine.
It was a solar battery that took millions of years to charge, and we’re draining it in centuries…
Jonathan Schofield
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