Scientist stirs the cauldron: oil, he says, is renewable

Boston Globe | May 22, 2001 | David L. Chandler

[Equality 7-2521]

He must not have found enough suckers investors to complete his miracle machine.

[sayfer bullets]

I always wondered what an environmentalist would do if oil bubbled up on their property (like ole' Jed). They'd probably fight and sue the rest of the commune.

[f.Christian]

check this out...oil/gas--we're rich!!

[74dodgedart]

See post 43. Its a huge lake. The US alone imports about 9 mill barrels a day.

[backhoe]

Let me find that link & we'll see if this is a different guy with this theory...

The Origin of Methane (and Oil) in the Crust of the Earth
Thomas Gold
U.S.G.S. Professional Paper 1570, The Future of Energy Gases, 1993

OK, same guy, note the 1993 date!

[Looking for Diogenes]

Except, I have to wonder how large the lake that would contain all the available oil in the world would be.

About 850 billion barrels consumed. Approximately 1600-2000 billion barrels believed to exist in the ground. The professor calculates the oil consumed would fill a 50 mile by 50 mile lake to a depth of 63 feet. So a lake with all of the oil that ever existed would be less than 200 feet deep.

Here are some other calculations showing the magnitude of 1.75 trillion barrels of oil. http://www.oilcrisis.com/debate/oilcalcs.htm

[spycatcher]

It will be interesting to see what we find in the next few decades.

[Looking for Diogenes]

If the U.S. consumes roughly 17 million barrels every day (see post 67) that equals a puddle 1 foot deep by 2191 acres. Which means every year we consume a lake 2191 acres in area and 365 feet deep. (Central Park is 843 acres. It would be flooded to a depth of 948 feet wih our annual consumption).

[LeeMcCoy]

Nah...I ain't that lucky. However I am part of the lunatic geologist fringe :)

[tpaine]

Actually Dog Gone is dead on. Many fields that took hundreds of millions of years to form are now depleted, this is fact. Not all of the fields are depleted, as is obvious by the fact that we are still making gasoline, but some have definitely being depleted.

Given another hundred million years, those fields may regenerate, but so what.

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You are missing the overall point of Golds theory, by concentrating on petroleum regeneation.

His point is that we will NEVER run out of methane/hydocarbons. We may have to drill very deep, but it is down there.

You might also think about how important it is for the oil industry to belittle this theory.

[tarpon_bill]

methane hydrates ------ Safe is the operative word.
What man can't do nature has a way of doing.

tarpon

[Clovis_Skeptic]

ping )))) what u think bout this?

[Aurelius]

BUMP

[boris]

He is nuts.

[Aurelius]

"He is nuts."</>I

Who is nuts?

[Aurelius]

"He is nuts."

Who is nuts?

[Aurelius]

Finally got it right. Truth is, all these scientists are nuts, but we let them run our world.

REBEL STOP THE RULE OF THE SCIENTISTS

The most dangerous of all is BERNARD D. COLMAN

[zog]

--hey, thanks for that link! I was reading about the extremely large gas emissions before. it was a page that suggested they were one possibility for similar airplane crashes/disappearances in the bermuda triangle area, and also for ships just suddenly sinking in the ocean. Can you imagine, floating along, minding your own ship-business, whammo! A 1/2 mile wide methane bubble underneath, instead of good ole sea water. Whoops!

Anyway, went to his main page there, snagged this quote: "Drilling into crystalline bedrock is now underway in Russia on a large scale. More than 300 wells have been drilled to a depth of more than 5 km and are productive, as also is the giant White Tiger field offshore Vietnam, mostly producing also from basement rock. "

Could be one reason that putin is ready to take on the saudis, maybe they proved this guys theory to their own satisfaction and are running with it.

[boris]

Thomas Gold.