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Modern humans have relied on fossil fuels for advancement. Without coal, petroleum, oil and natural gas who knows where we would be? But what we do know is that our world and the way we live within it would both be radically different. What are fossil fuels and when were they formed? I guess most users of fossil fuels never stop to ponder those questions. Fossil fuels were formed over millions of years when our planet was much younger, long before humans came along and long before the dinosaurs too. There were vast forests, fertile tropical seas and bubbling swamps. The organic materials spawned in that long, long period of our planet's history became the basis of all fossil fuels. It is admittedly hard to get your head around such an idea. See the twenty four hour clock at the top of this blogpost. It represents our planet's history from its very beginnings to the present day. For the first twelve hours Earth was just cooking. Any life forming wa...
