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A fun reminder that fossil fuels are not just an energy source, but due to being made plentiful for the purpose of fuel a secondary productive route of chemical engineering to the point that we eat the oil and methane, transformed through chemistry. Tons of food additives and flavors have their origin in fossil fuels.
There’s actually an entire field of chemistry dedicated to finding renewable alternatives to petroleum as a manufacturing feedstock for common chemicals. It’s not easy but very necessary.
A fun reminder that fossil fuels are not just an energy source, but due to being made plentiful for the purpose of fuel a secondary productive route of chemical engineering to the point that we eat the oil and methane, transformed through chemistry. Tons of food additives and flavors have their origin in fossil fuels.
There’s actually an entire field of chemistry dedicated to finding renewable alternatives to petroleum as a manufacturing feedstock for common chemicals. It’s not easy but very necessary.
Neat! What’s it called?
This page has more information about some of the approaches: https://www.science.org/content/article/can-world-make-chemicals-it-needs-without-oil
Plant based chemistry is also one of the avenues being seriously explored: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452223621000067
Awesome, thanks for the links!
me selecting the “Lithovore” characteristic on my custome race in Master of Orion 2