So incase we have problems finding crued oil or cant import any more, can we make our own renewable gas, oil, plastics, ect?
2007-01-03 09:21:49 · 3 answers · asked by Casey 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
No of course not. There is no science of organic chemistry and there are not thousands of compounds which involve bonding carbon and hydrogen.
More seroiusly the problem with doing what you want is getting the carbon and hydrogen for the bonding which almost always requires more energy to break the existing carbon and hydrogen source apart. If you have carbon and hydrogen easily at hand, it is better (more efficient) to use them directly instead of combining them, but it harder to store and move them (carbon being coal - messy and black dust and hydrogen being very light thus bulky and prone to leak through the slightest hole.)
2007-01-03 09:28:42 · answer #1 · answered by Mike1942f 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes you can react carbon with hydrogen to form hydrocarbon chains.......but i wouldnt like to be anywhere near it if you did
2007-01-03 10:33:19 · answer #2 · answered by dan.harris9 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we could, but we'd have to get them from... oil.
Most organic compounds are off-products of the refining of oil.
2007-01-03 09:30:55 · answer #3 · answered by Melissa Me 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋