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  • Maoo [none/use name]
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
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      9 months ago

      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.

        • Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
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          9 months ago

          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

    • D61 [any]
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      9 months ago

      me selecting the "Lithovore" characteristic on my custome race in Master of Orion 2

      dean-smile

  • comrade_pibb [comrade/them]
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    9 months ago

    Part of me resents this guy for being able to drop 6k on a candy tool he doesn't understand

  • glans [it/its]
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    9 months ago

    I needed any video to open to see if I have correctly configured the audio codecs on my new linux install. Bingo!

    What a fun way to teach people about science. I just clicked though but those candies look good. And now I remember I have a whole jar of cinnamon hearts so I'm gonna go make my mouth all red now. Fantastic video.