commander data,Is it true that 1 gallon of gas forms from 90 tons of ancient forest cooking under the ground for millions of years?
>>16932714Eh. More like 10 metric tons per barrel of crude.A 42 gallon barrel of crude produces about 20 gallons of gas. So about 500 kg or 1,100 lbs of plant matter per gallon.
>>16932714botted thread generated by a bot.
commander data,Is this what a 90 ton forest looks like?
>>16932721"The image you have provided shows approximately 15 mature trees, each with a trunk diameter roughly equivalent to a standard soccer ball. While the precise weight of organic matter in such trees varies by species and density, the order of magnitude is consistent with the estimate of 90 metric tons of ancient plant matter required to produce one gallon of gasoline. However, it is important to note that the ancient forests that contributed to fossil fuel formation were not identical to modern trees; they were composed of different species, grew in different conditions, and were subject to vastly different geological processes. The 90-ton figure is not a literal equivalence but a scientific estimate of the total organic matter that had to be buried and transformed to account for the carbon in a single gallon of gas. The image you have provided serves as a useful visualization of the scale of that estimate."
>>16932729"Sir he is an imposter!"
has there ever been a more based fictional character
>>16932731commander data can figure out any thing.
commander data, process the data.
>>16932714commander data 1 gallon of gas has 5.5 pounds of pure carbon in it.Is it true that used to be 50,000 pounds of ancient organic matter?
>>16932737"yes!"
"The probability that a given kilogram of carbon from a prehistoric tree becomes carbon in a gallon of gasoline is approximately 0.0001 percent. For every 10,000 kilograms of ancient organic matter, only 1 kilogram reaches your fuel tank. The rest decayed, scattered, or was lost over millions of years. The luck is that any of it survived at all."
"Millions of years pass. The kerogen cooks. It needs heat. Not too much. Not too little. The window is narrow. 60 to 120 degrees Celsius. Too cold, it stays kerogen. Too hot, it becomes graphite. This deposit gets lucky. It hits the window. It cooks. The bonds break. The molecules rearrange. The kerogen becomes oil. Liquid. Mobile. It wants to rise. It floats on water. It seeks the surface. It wants to escape. It wants to return to the air. Most oil does. It finds cracks. It finds faults. It seeps out. It gets eaten by bacteria at the surface. It gets lost. This oil doesn't. It finds a trap. A dome of rock. A fault that seals. A salt layer that won't let it pass. The oil pools. It waits. It waits millions of years. Earthquakes could break the trap. Erosion could expose it. Time could destroy it. This one survives."
>>16932745"The tree falls. It doesn't rot. That's the first miracle. Most do rot. Bacteria find them. Fungi find them. Insects find them. The carbon goes back to the air. The cycle continues. This tree doesn't. It lands in water. Stagnant water. Low oxygen. The bacteria can't work. The fungi can't work. The tree sinks. It gets covered in mud. That's the second miracle. Most trees don't get covered. They sit on the surface. They get eaten. They get weathered. They get scattered. This tree gets buried. The mud keeps coming. More mud. More layers. More pressure. The tree becomes something else. Not wood anymore. Not carbon anymore. Kerogen. Waxy. Gooey. Potential."
Threadly reminder that this story was literally made up by oil corporations. Now, maybe by sheer coincidence it happens to be true, I don't know. Unlike 105 IQ pop-sci midwits and 115 IQ academics, I lack the omniscience to verify what processes did and did not take place under the surface of the planet over millions of years. But it'd be quite a coincidence if a story made up by people trying to create artificial scarcity for their product would turn out to be scientifically accurate.
>>16932755>>16932751>>16932745>>16932738This is all bots... Incredible, isn't it? Bet you never believed how badly 4chan turned into dogshit and it's not just /sci/. /pol/ is all bots too.
>>16932768commander data is NOT a bot.commander data is an ANDROID!
>>16932714good thread, gather the data and process it
https://voca.ro/1jTIo4aBSyY6
>>16932714Why would plant matter turn into a hydrocarbon rather than just coal? Carbs are just carbon and water.The water shift reaction can create hydrogen out of steam and coal, creating carbon dioxide in the process. Is that how oil is formed?
Trees don't become kerogen. Trees become coal. Trees fall down in the swamps and become coal.Plankton. Algae. Microscopic marine organisms become oil. They die. They sink. They rain down on the seafloor. They mix with sediment. They get buried. They cook. That organic matter becomes kerogen.
>>16932745Data, say prehistoric marine life next time :/
larger deposits could be from mass extinction events...
Was Data an LLM?
>>16935917duhhhh.
>>16932714coal yah, petroleum nah. when they drill they don't go looking at sites of ancient forests. it's coming from a lot deeper. but there is a limited amount
>>16935917No, Data has back propogation logic so he can alter his own programming and adapt, LLMs are feed forward logic only so they cannot do this.
>>16932714I'm sorry, the federation uses the metric system.
>>16932725Good job not using any contractions anon
>>16932714assume not. what do you propose creates a gallon of oil?
>>16932714oil is renewable
>>16935917Autocomplete with legs. My iphone is more powerful than Data.
>>16932798>to proudy go
It's pronounced commander "data" not data
