Titan's Surface Organics Surpass Oil Reserves on Earth

NASA ^ | February 13th, 2008

[rednesss]

"I think that Tyrell Corporation is the way to play it."

Batty: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time... like tears in rain... Time to die.

[onedoug]

Though why are Earth's hydrocarbon deposits always found in sedimentary, or meta-sedimentary rock?

[tubebender]

Buy Titan Oil Company stock now.

That's for beginners. I just signed the contract to build the pipeline...

[tet68]

The methane rain falls mainly on Titan’s plains?

Just think if one of those billion ton oil tanker
rockets ran aground on the moon or hit the space station?
Who would clean up all the satellites and just think
of the poor Lunar polo bears?

[SouthTexas]

I think I may wait on this one.

[Elsiejay]

And then we will find more energy in . . .?

[U S Army EOD]

Any bids on the pipe line yet?

[Logic n' Reason]

True enough....but the pipeline is going to be a bit “iffy”!!

[tubebender]

See post #63. I still have a few shares left but they have gone up in price. Don’t miss out this time around...

[Turborules]

the chemistry of oil and NG requires pressure and heat same as that needed to form coal and diamonds. the biggest deposits are found in coastal areas miles below the surface where you find many forms of rock strata...I will look at the geological data for evidence..., I am not saying that plankton and sea life could not add to the equation , it is a complicated process, and a simple statement that dinosaur and plant life is the source is very self serving...

The fact that other planets or moons in our own Solar System, proven not to support life as we know it, yet still produce Oil and Gas in abundance...Titan, proves my point, as other have noted, Organic life or man was not needed, only the Creators Chemistry Set.

I will look for the original white paper research I studied about 15 years ago, it is here on one of my computers???

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

I’m not sure that I understand your comment. The four hundred years is the amount of energy available in coal, if used to make electricity and converted to fuel oil (for about $60/bbl) at current rates of consumption. Coal, btw, is clearly of biological origin.

Burning coal for electricity makes little sense when nuclear energy is available, but that’s the silly political environment we find ourselves in.

Sometime in the next four hindred years, approximately the time since Columbus’ voyage, the world will have to work out the details of how to take of itself without us. The abiotic theory offers the hope that virtually inexhaustable reserves of hydrocarbons are available under the surface of the earth, if we learn how to exploit them.

[onedoug]

I seriously doubt there’s any crude oil out there. I’m just one of those biologics (no, not dinosaurs) guys for sedimentary reasons. No other source beds have been otherwise documented. Though I can be persuaded otherwise...with evidence. But it’s gotta be solid.