#4 The Tasty Rock that Changed the World (Salt: A World History)
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The Decline of Salt Energy
In 250 BC they started discovering this and then by 8100 they were basically building bamboo piping to bring the natural gas up into their home so they could cook with it. 2,000 years ago they had natural gas infrastructure for cooking with in their homes wild. That was kind of the main contribution of salt energy for a long time until we start drilling for oil then we realized that a lot of places where there are these big salt licks and big salt reserves there's also oil because salt is impenetrable organic material gets trapped next to the salt and slowly decomposes into oil and gas.
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