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Originally Posted by Duke
...I know you're all prolly going "oh no" but I am curious.
Why is it that with all that the human race has acheived, why can we not create fossil fuels? Why is it that we can't replicate and reproduce something that took millions of years to produce? We can blast our food with radiation to make what used to take 30 minutes to cook in under 5 minutes, we can order a complete meal at a drive through window, and we can fly through the air at the speed of a bullet, yet we can't create oil.
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Theoretically you can produce oil. Oil is used for all kinds of fuels, so it would make more sense to create the respective fuels. That is where the problems creep in. It would cost enormous amounts of energy to make them from other raw sources. Don't forget that the burning of fuel gives energy, so we have to add that energy to the things we make fuel of. All in all it would be pretty inefficient to do so.
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We also manufacture equipment that's byproduct or waste is in the form of ozone yet we can't do anything to repair the growing hole in our ozone layer.
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Again, everything is much more complicated than just ozone. There are thousands of gasses (CO2, NOx, CH4 (which is a fuel!)) that come into the equation. If things were only as simple as we imagine them to be ...
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We live in a world that's getting overrun with our waste products and still haven't found a way to fully unproduce what we produced in the first place. How is that possible? If we created it, shouldn't we be able to uncreate it and quickly? Why don't we just take the money used to run the dumps of the world, create a rocket loaded with waste, blast it off and aim it for the sun? Would this not eliminate all waste, I think it would since nothing can survive the heat of the sun.
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Again to create plastic it takes a lot of energy. To uncreate it, we would have to reverse the process of creating plastic, which is impossible to my knowledge. It would cost enormous amounts of energy, and where would we get the energy from?
The amount of waste is so enormous, that a rocket simply would not suffice. I don't know the exact volume, but it looks like something much bigger would be needed. And the Sun is only 6000 centigrades on its surface. There are substances that would not dissociate in that heat.
A bullet may cost as little as 20 cents at a supermarket in the US, but that does by no means imply that the bullet can do 20 cents of damage max.
Hope this clears things a bit up.