RE: salvation from tar pits?

You may be right. I haven't finished the article yet. Too busy, gotta
do UK taxes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Howard J. Van Till [mailto:hvantill@sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 6:58 PM

> It seems my first inclination was pretty much on target.
> Here's a quotation from the conclusion of the original article:
>
> > Ancient organic matter generated fossil fuels through inefficient
> > processes. Calculations in this paper suggest that the formation of
> > coal from plants is less than 10% efficient, and the
> formation of oil
> > and gas from phytoplankton is less than 0.01% efficient.
>
> Note that 0.22 / 400 = 0.055%
>
> Howard
>
>
Received on Mon Jun 28 22:29:28 2004