Fun fact: fossil fuels are—technically—a form of stored sunlight. Jonathan Swift’s facetious suggestion in Gulliver’s Travels that scientific research would one day allow people to store sunlight in vials to use it later more or less came true (although unlike the researcher in his story, we started off by extracting it from coal rather than from cucumbers).
Ah, that’s why it’s called “The Dark Continent”.
Precisely.
Fun fact: fossil fuels are—technically—a form of stored sunlight. Jonathan Swift’s facetious suggestion in Gulliver’s Travels that scientific research would one day allow people to store sunlight in vials to use it later more or less came true (although unlike the researcher in his story, we started off by extracting it from coal rather than from cucumbers).