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On trees... (mander.xyz)
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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/

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year 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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