Comment on The Cold War divided Science

Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:52:10 GMT

It's not a priori impossible that some different fuels were created using different processes,

No, but it's highly unlikely that both processes create comparable amounts of fuel.

For example, diamond forms from several different processes, but the vast majority of them are formed in the Earth's mantle and then brought to the surface by volcanic processes. It's technically true that there are diamonds that used to be coal, but saying that diamonds came from coal would be highly misleading.

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