Here's a video. It's about Tucker Carlson talking with a physicist who says that not all "fossil fuels" are from fossils.
This topic is not about global warming, it's not about fossil fuels. You can watch the video if you choose to see what this woman has to say about it, but it's not what I'm talking about.
What shocked me most about the video (not real shock, obviously, I'm used to this kind of thing on this forum daily, but I have to write some adjective, so I used "shocked") was the Tucker Carlson said
"We haven't been told the truth about where hydrocarbons come from"
Why is this "shocking"?
Because we have been told. It's all over the internet.
en.wikipedia.org
There's wikipedia.
"In the
fossil fuel industries,
hydrocarbon refers to naturally occurring
petroleum,
natural gas and
coal, or their hydrocarbon derivatives and purified forms."
What's a "hydrocarbon derivative"? I typed in "hydrocarbon derivative" into Bing and got this page
VIDEO ANSWER: What are hydrocarbon derivatives?
www.numerade.com
"These additional atoms or groups are responsible for the unique chemical properties and reactivity of each derivative. Hydrocarbon derivatives are formed when one or more hydrogen atoms in a hydrocarbon molecule are replaced by other atoms or functional groups"
You have to sign up for free to see the rest, I can't be bothered. Let's go to the next one.
chem.libretexts.org
It gives a bunch of molecular diagrams.
Learn about hydrocarbon derivatives. Understand how to define hydrocarbon derivative, learn the functional group of hydrocarbon derivatives, and...
study.com
"
What are the different functional groups and structures between derivatives of hydrocarbons and regular hydrocarbons?
There are several different functional groups and structures of hydrocarbon derivatives. These functional groups include alcohols (hydroxyl bound to carbon), aldehydes (oxygen double bound to carbon), ketones (oxygen double bound to a central carbon), amines (amino group bound to carbon), esters (two oxygen atoms bound to carbon), ethers (oxygen bound to two carbons), and carboxylic acids (oxygen and hydroxyl group bound to carbon)."
So, took me three clicks (or 5 if you include clicking back) to find a but of an answer.
Here's my commentary:
We live in a society where people claim they don't know something because THEY HAVEN'T BEEN TOLD something.
This is not an excuse. There are some things we cannot find on the internet. You cannot find out who the "Deep State" is on the internet. Mostly because the "Deep State", otherwise know as "they" as in "they're after us", doesn't actually exist. But for the most part, especially topics like the one being discussed in the video, we have been told, there's enough information on the HUGE INTERNET in English to tell you whatever you want to know. There are many Youtube videos. I have been trying to figure out string theory. I'm not a scientist, I haven't done science since high school, I didn't give a damn about it when I was in high school. Now it interests me more than ever. And I can't find out the information I want, because we simply don't know. And then there's the information I don't know. For example I've had to look up gravity, and realized we don't know why gravity works, the best idea is time dilation around the planet causes gravity. So I looked up all these things and tried to educate myself on these things, and I'm still ignorant.
But just because I'm ignorant does not mean I go for the go-to excuse of "they don't tell me"....
www.npr.org
www.findlaw.com
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