Why is petrol a non-renewable energy source?
Normally, oil found in underground reservoirs is not renewable within human timescales…it takes many years for nature to produce it although some people believe that some forms of oil are abiotic in nature….they are produced by ongoing processes within the earth and possibly utilize bacteria and are not the result of buried organisms. However, oil can be made by human methods and a renewable resource. We have the technology today to convert the billions of tons of garbage and waste products we produce every year into oil using the same methods that occur in nature…extreme heat and pressure….only much faster than nature provides. All of our current and near future oil needs in the US could be met by using that waste and garbage and renewable crops to produce oil. Any carbon-based product can be utilized in this process…the millions of old tires we dispose of every year, sewer sludge, food wastes, wood pulp, consumer garbage and waste, even renewable, fast growing junk crops. T
