Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: NoLibZone
The organic processes that create the organic energy have not stopped.

No, but if the process came close to our current rate of consumption, and had continued for hundreds of millions of years, it would cover the earth in several miles of depth.

The process hasn't stopped, but the rate of production is so small compared to current consumption to be considered insignificant.

3 posted on 05/03/2012 12:25:08 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies ]


To: thackney
No, but if the process came close to our current rate of consumption, and had continued for hundreds of millions of years, it would cover the earth in several miles of depth

Not arguing that the rate is sufficient for our needs, but even if the rate were 100,000 times smaller, we would still have a few thousand years supply. Enough time to find alternatives I would say.

Also surely you don't mean to imply that it would have actually come out. Whatever is generated presumably rouglhy replaces the volume of material that was its source...

Of course, IF it is abiogenic to begin with...

4 posted on 05/03/2012 1:28:19 PM PDT by mwilli20 (BO. Making communists proud all over the world.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson