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Bored? Get some variety. Cramped, after all those centuries? Stretch out. Fight entropy! You'll float free up here with us. Hitch a ride on the petroleum express, then float free in the ATMOSPHERE!
Go through the process of HUMAN INTERVENTION.
After millions of years of sub-oceanic-floor movement, seafloor carbon from fossilized plants is forced deep into the earth's core where it is heated up and eventually melts, becoming fossil fuel. The raw fuel is extracted–drilled, mined, or fracked–then processed into combustible fuel. When burned, this 'fossil' fuel creates the energy to run your microwave, move your car, or heat your home. At the same time, all the carbon that was stored in the rock is released into the atmosphere. [Other routes out to atomosphere]
2C8H18+25O2 => 16CO2 + 18H2O
Fuel + Oxygen => Water + Carbon Dioxide + Heat
Hydrocarbons release energy in the process of combustion.
Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Combustion wikipedia.org/Fossil_fuel
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Hey, where do you think you're going? Think you're better than the rest of us? Stick around awhile longer. What else are you gonna do for the next million years? Stick it out. Stay as ROCK.
Just WAIT AROUND!
Carbon stays in rock, oil, minerals and salts for millions and millions of year. Without human intervention, the carbon in these forms can re-enter the carbon cycle violently through volcanic eruptions or more gradually through CO2 rich vents and hot springs. Human intervention is a fast track to the atmosphere, geologically speaking. If you want to take your time, stay down here in the rock.
You are Carbon in Rock
Heat and pressure sure add up over time. Same as it ever was. We're at peace in the face of eternity. What are you in for? It has taken millions of years but we've literally become "as hard as rock." It's a rough and tumble world down here, ...dwelling below the hurly burly of ocean and earth surfaces, but we can tough it out.
99% of all the carbon on earth is stored in the earth's crust. It can stay here for millions, even hundreds of millions of years.[centuries of sediment build-up, pressure, and tectonic movement.] Carbon in calcium carbonate sinks into sedimentary rock deposits such as limestone, dolomite and chalk. Pressure and heat turn the sediment into rock or sometimes, when matter builds up faster than it decays, into fossil fuels like coal, oil, and natural gas. [Mountain peaks, limestone for cement]
Iron: 32.1%, Oxygen: 30.1%, Silicon: 15.1%, Sulfur: 2.9%, Magnesium: 13.9%, Nickel: 1.8%, Calcium: 1.5%, Aluminum: 1.4%, Other: 1.2%
Learn much more: wikipedia.org/Rock_(geology)
