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I don't think the opening to the Environmental effects section needs to include the bit about the "huge improvements". The section is about the environmental effects and the "Importance" section already covers that earlier. In bold is line I suggest should be removed:
I think yes to include at least one pic of each of the 3 main fossil fuels. Your thoughts?
Chidgk1 ( talk) 06:04, 7 April 2022 (UTC)
Remove the word 'underground' from the definition, not all fossil fuels are formed underground, peat is one such example 31.200.145.28 ( talk) 17:12, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
There is very little useful information in this article about fossil fuels, apart from the statement that their use constitutes 84% of primary energy production in the world. What is the relative importance or the different types of fuels and their market value? Is more energy produced from natural gas than from coal? About 70% of the current article is actually about Environmental issues with fossil fuels. It would be better if this content was split off to a separate article. ("Environmental issues" is currently a redirect to the lower 2/3 of this article.)
As to the issue of climate change, I would like to know how much CO2 is released for a megawatt of electricity by different fossil fuels, coal, petroleum, natural gas, LNG. Please improve this article by collecting this information and adding it here.
-- Petri Krohn ( talk) 11:14, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
Effects of innovative and creative accessories on marketability of product 136.158.65.89 ( talk) 13:55, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
Fossil fuel is a generic term for non-renewable energy sources such as coal, coal products, natural gas, derived gas, crude oil, petroleum products and non-renewable wastes. These fuels originate from plants and animals that existed in the geological 41.114.215.247 ( talk) 17:46, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
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Fossil fuels do not come from decayed plants and animals. That's why hydrocarbons are found and many places throughout the solar system where life is never believed to have exist. Hydrocarbons form naturally inside of the Earth and as they expand further towards the crust they are then absorbed by by microbial life and various algies and used for energy.
https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/questions/10823/are-fossil-fuels-really-formed-from-fossils 47.38.218.105 ( talk) 01:39, 16 January 2024 (UTC)