Question

Can petroleum be produced in the the lab ?why or why not?

Answer 1

Bo because the conditions required for it could not be created in lab

Answer 2

You can imitate the process through heat and pressure but it is heat and time (millions of years+) that generate real oil in any quantity. The energy inputs to create synthetic oils will exceed the energy outputs. This, by the way, is why fossil fuels will always be 2-3X cheaper than most alternatives. The Earth makes fossil fuels using millions of years of accumulated biomass...and politicians really believe corn ethanol makes sense? The amont of all organic biomass grown in the past 2 years, would not even be noticeable as an organic layer (like coals) in the geologic record! Fossil fuels ARE solar energy, they ARE biomass!

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