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The decades-long quest to create the world's most important industrial materials without drilling holes in the ground or tapping trees. Petroleum synthesis (from coal, natural gas, or biomass) is real and practiced at scale—Fischer-Tropsch plants turn gas into liquid fuels, especially where oil is expensive and gas is cheap. Rubber synthesis is even more successful: most rubber today is synthetic, made from petroleum. The frontier is making these processes cheaper, cleaner, and more efficient, and eventually making them from renewable sources. The dream is a world where transportation fuels come from air and water, where tires are made from plants, and where the petroleum age ends not because we ran out of oil but because we found something better.
Synthesis of Petroleum, Rubber and Related Materials Example: "The plant synthesized diesel from natural gas, producing fuel that burned cleaner than oil-derived diesel. It worked perfectly, at scale, for decades. Environmentalists hated it because natural gas. Oil companies hated it because competition. The plant didn't care; it just made fuel. Synthesis had won, quietly, without anyone noticing."
by Dumu The Void February 16, 2026
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phat relate

a response to someone when you can relate.
jim: “damn, my dick is so hard
tom: “phat relate
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relate

Means to have a connection with what you are exposing or saying. People place them with hashtags or question marks
Ex.
#relate #relating

relate? are you relating this?
I can relate this story with what my mama said

hashtags placed on the captions- #relate, #relating
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Can’t relate

A phrase used by the iconic multi millionaire youtuber Jeffree Star. It means that if you never experienced something you cannot relate on it.
Local: I want to go into Gucci but I don’t think they’ll let me in because I look poor and homeless

Jeffree: Can’t relate *walks in and buys 10,000 worth of gucci*

Local: *cries in poor*
by Natexclip September 16, 2018
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