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The Unbearable Inefficiency of Fossil Fuels (thinc.blog)
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Humanity is graduating from burning fossil commodities to mastering manufactured technologies—from hunting scarce fossils to farming the inexhaustible sun, from consuming Earth’s resources to merely borrowing them.

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[–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

As much as that's true you cannot recharge your old fossil fuel like you can with a battery so you are really replacing your energy source every time.

Considering that we knew that everything is finite, we do have to transition at some point anyway.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You recharge your storage device (a metal tank) by pouring in more liquid over 30 seconds. That ease of use combined with how energy dense oil derivatives are is such a massive benefit for them.

    The problem with fossil fuels is that they are slowly choking our planet, except for that they are phenomenal energy sources on who's backs the modern world was built. That is why it is so hard for us to transition away from them.

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