Nazis and how did dinosaurs get miles under the earth.

[Carsten Wiethoff]

The book seems to me very sensationalist, exagerated and misleading. While it is true that the Fischer-Tropsch process can produce synthetic liquid oil from other materials (like coal, natural gas or biomass), these materials (except biomass) are still finite resources. You don't need dinosaurs, but you still need organic material to convert into oil. And as long as this organic material comes from the crust of the earth and the resulting fuel is being burnt up, CO2 levels in the atmosphere will rise. Fuel from biomass has the problem that to produce the biomass, resources will have to be used that could otherwise be used to produce food. Still in the long term this would be the only way to have really renewable fuel.