Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-83.70.203.112-20150923133208/@comment-25522231-20151026162619

83.70.203.112 wrote: I've been thinking. In RWBY its pretty well explained that Dust is pretty much the dominant form of fuel. Hence the influence of Schnee. But what about Oil, and coal, and other assorted fossel fuels? They are essentially compacted dead plants and animals. There is no reason I can think of that it wouldn't be present in Remnant. And if it isn't, or if it is and they just haven't discovered it yet, do they have plastics? Because plastics are made from oil. If neither of these things exist, how do they do the things that they do with electronics and such? Because plastic is used extensively in electronics due to its non-conductive nature. If oil and plastic don't exist, how does everything work? Just hoping someone will be able to explain this to me, because as lore and world building goes, RWBY is kind of lacking on the technical explinations front of things.

Not all plastics are patrolium based