Is this a plausible reason for diamonds being renewable?

Question

"Diamonds are a renewable source, despite being mined and used frequently and carbon requiring millions of years to form the demand for diamond supply can be met to replenish our usage due to our technology of synthetically producing diamonds. This has allowed us to meet industrial demands for diamonds over the past decades since the technology was first introduced in the 1950s."

Answer 1

As synthetic diamonds aren't actual diamonds, they have no relevance upon whether actual diamonds are a renewable resource which, given the length of time required for their formation when compared to human lifespans, they effectively aren't. What they do is meet much of the demand with a useful alternative product.



That's not the same thing as continually producing new diamonds.



Update

"Your statement is a plausible reason for diamond being renewable, although it really pushes the common definition of renewable to the limit since normally renewable is used to mean that if left alone the item involved will renew without man intervening."



I see. So as long as we alter the common definition of renewable to mean something it didn't previously mean...



"Synthetic diamonds ARE real diamonds both for jewelry and for the mass of industrial uses."



That'd give the word 'synthetic' a whole new meaning as well. It wasn't a synonym for 'real' earlier today.

Answer 2

Both of the first two answers contain errors of fact which make them wrong.

Your statement is a plausible reason for diamond being renewable, although it really pushes the common definition of renewable to the limit since normally renewable is used to mean that if left alone the item involved will renew without man intervening.

Synthetic diamonds ARE real diamonds both for jewelry and for the mass of industrial uses.

Answer 3

Being able to turn graphite (or other forms of carbon) into diamond artificially doesn't make diamonds a renewable resource.



Besides, like 95 % of all mined diamonds go into industrial use. They're quite cheap.