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ancient sunlight, bottled into liquid violence, waiting for a single spark to remember it's alive
means Any material—like wood, coal, gas, or food—burned or consumed to produce energy, heat, or power.
from From the Old French 'fouaille,' meaning material for a fire, which traces back to the Latin 'focus'—the hearth, the fireplace, the literal heart of a Roman home. So 'fuel' and 'focus' are distant cousins, both born from that same glowing center where a household gathered. What once meant 'the stuff that feeds the hearth' eventually came to mean anything that feeds a fire, an engine, or, figuratively, a passion.
- fossil origin
- oil is dead plankton, pressure-cooked for millions of years
- energy density
- gasoline packs more energy per kilo than TNT
- rocket fuel
- liquid hydrogen burns at minus 253 degrees Celsius cold
- hidden cost
- refining one barrel takes huge amounts of water
- the body
- calories are just fuel measured by heating water
brent crude oil — global benchmark crude oil from north sea oilfields, trading at ~$80/barrel in 2024
saudi aramco — world's largest oil producer, supplying 13+ million barrels per day globally
trans-alaska pipeline — 800-mile pipeline carrying 500,000+ barrels daily from prudhoe bay to valdez since 1977
deepwater horizon disaster — gulf of mexico oil rig explosion in 2010 spilled 4.9 million barrels, largest environmental disaster