Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-4784525-20131010155204/@comment-10390252-20131031095644

XDex wrote: 99.31.117.139 wrote: they probably have a way of "growing" (for lack of a better word) more dust. after all, when a quarry is believed to be all dug up, then they would pull out and eventually go out of buisness. surely they would have for seen that and found a way to manufacture it. Uh, we are currently depleting our planet's oil supply. We know it's not infinite, yet still use it and don't exactly have the greatest plans for finding something else. I don't see why dust would be much different in that regard.

Fossil fuels can be synthesised but it is a complex and energy-intensive process. Right now, it's cheaper to mine the stuff, even with complex processes like fracking, than it is to sythesise. However, the technology does exist and I imagine that, should production costs go up enough, some Big Oil companies will start experimenteing with it. I'm sure something similar would happen with Dust (assuming it can be synthesised).