Does Deep Earth Host Untapped Fuel?

ABCnews.com ^ | January 19, 2006 | Lee Dye

[Physicist]

Now, a couple of decades after Gold first suggested that hydrocarbons are formed deep underground by geological processes and not just below the surface by biological decay, there is increasing evidence that he may have been on to something.

Perhaps Gold also suggested a non-biological mechanism for generating the microscopic fossils that are found in association with petroleum deposits.

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

This is precisely why the "Global warming" (now, the bidirectional "climate change") story was necessary. If people thought that petroleum resources weren't running out -- they might (gasp) use them! This use could lead to (the horrors) prosperity -- without guilt!!! We can't have that.

{we satarize -- you decide.}

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Every Christmas, the aliens disguise one of the UFOs as a sled.

[RightWhale]

That's right! I'll update the cardfile.

[bubman]

I am shocked that ABCNews actually ran this story.

This theory has been advanced by russian scientists as far back as the thirties under Stalin.

[Cicero]

There are fossils imbedded in many kinds of rock, too. Does that mean that rocks are organic?

I'm not saying that I believe this theory, but it is at least possible. It's not hard to conceive of ways that fossils could have worked their way into coal and oil deposits.

[hosepipe]

Right.... If not then, where did the methane come from on other planets in our solar system.. and who knows maybe even undiscovered crude oil within them.. as well..

But the concept does go against sacred "EVO" dogma that bleeds into the geologists minds.. That petrolem deposits come from buried organic sources.. and diamonds too.. Interesting

If true the concept has a hard row to hoe.. to surface..
Academia has always fought hard against the TRUTH...

[Strategerist]

Violate the narrow FR orthodoxy and.... Well you know.

The narrow FR orthodoxy on this subject is that oil is NOT a fossil fuel, actually, not the reverse. Mainly because people want it not to be a fossil fuel.

[Strategerist]

But the concept does go against sacred "EVO" dogma that bleeds into the geologists minds..

Well, all field geologists spend a good portion of their working lives staring at obvious evidence of evolution, so it's not surprising they're basically all evolutionists and you don't see any geologists at all on the small lists of "scientists who don't believe in evolution" that float around.

[tpaine]

billorites: "-- Now, a couple of decades after Gold first suggested that hydrocarbons are formed deep underground by geological processes and not just below the surface by biological decay, there is increasing evidence that he may have been on to something. --"

Perhaps Gold also suggested a non-biological mechanism for generating the microscopic fossils that are found in association with petroleum deposits.
21 Physicist

Yes, he did. -- Try reading his book..

And btw, how do you explain the existence of 'gas giant' planets, if methane is not produced non-biologically?

[capt. norm]

This would mean that at least some petroleum is not a fossil fuel.

[ASOC]

Humm OK, lets see --

Titan has "Oceans of hydrocarbons" (http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/news/expandnews.cfm?id=532) Io has hydrocarbons
(Salama, F. (1999). Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in the Interstellar Medium. A Review. In Solid Interstellar Matter: The ISO Revolution, L. d'Hendecourt, C. Joblin, & A. Jones, eds., (EDP Sciences: Les Ullis, France), pp. 65-87.) and

(Salama, F., Galazutdinov, G. A., Krelowski, J. Allamandola, L. J., & Musaev, F. A. (1999). Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and the Diffuse Interstellar Bands. A Survey. Astrophys. J. 526, 265-273.)

I am pretty sure dinosaurs and large fern forrests did not exist in the Jovian system those many eons ago - so just maybe this guy has a valid point - or the Earth was slammed with giant comets full of crude back in the day...

Have fun.

[Strategerist]

There is a vast, vast, vast, vast difference between Methane and the hydrocarbons in petroleum.

Quite the strawman construction there...precisely nobody has ever claimed all methane is biological.

[arthurus]

Actually it is not that important to current and evolving energy needs because of the available Tar Sands and Shale oil. And as for methane, there are huge amounts just lying about on the deep ocean floorin those little ice nodules, enough that libs are already worrying that efforts to tap that source will Destroy Us All or that Global Warming will melt the nodules and flood the atmosphere with methane that will Destroy Us All.

[Strategerist]

I am pretty sure dinosaurs and large fern forrests did not exist in the Jovian system those many eons ago

See, here's one of the basic problems...people thinking oil comes from dinosaurs (or land plants) as a result of some crappy children's cartoons, and the mental image called up by the term "fossil fuel" (and people thinking ONLY of dinosaurs when they think of fossils) and now more recently the worthless blatherings in the book of that incompetent moron, Jerome Corsi.

Petroleum was formed from dead microscopic marine and lacustrine diatoms, algae, and bacteria.

[razorback-bert]

drill a well 100 miles into the Earth

It has only take me 4 months to drill 2 miles, so...

[Ursus arctos horribilis]

Finete: Existing, persisting, or enduring for a limited time only; impermanent.

Infinete: Having no boundaries or limits.

[TASMANIANRED]

Screw all the complications.

Take 2 lbs of pinto beans , throw in a ham hock and some onions.

Any Human can convert it into cubic feet of methane in 4-6 hours.

[arthurus]

Coal is legitimately Fossil Fuel. Oil and gas appear not to be.

[arthurus]

Those microscopic fossils may well be just "along for the ride." Finding an ancient man's body in a snowbank does not prove that glaciers derive from decayed humans.