Burning up the Earth's oil supply is like unwinding an enormous spring that took millions of years to wind
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I mean ICEs are kludgey and dangerous and bad bc there's so much energy in there and we can't let it out w/o constant explosions
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A cylinder contains a little bomb that just keeps going off again and again and after decades we've made this mostly predictable and safe
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(Then again the Orion project was to power a spaceship by setting off nukes repeatedly to launch it forward)
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I sometimes feel like to really understand how the carbon crisis works we should first admit that fossil fuels are really really great
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There wouldn't be a problem if that weren't true. Fossil fuel is a crazy tremendous amount of energy in an incredibly convenient package
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That's the issue. The processes that packed that much energy up can't be replicated artificially, not in a human timeframe
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It's a spring we can't rewind once unwound, which is why depending on it means we're totally fucked when it's gone
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And that's why the global warming "side effect", too - to make a huge battery of that much biomass fundamentally changed the Earth
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To unwind that big of a spring means fundamentally changing the Earth back
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Oil is a miraculous energy source because HUGE AMOUNTS of the stuff of life and the energy it held was locked away and compressed
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I guess an analogy might be someone who gets rich by finding a giant pile of gold
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1) You can't spend that much gold without fucking up the economy around you permanently
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