Posted on 03/18/2012 12:46:10 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
I can show you pumps still in place that are pure orange from rust and probably haven’t moved in my lifetime. The best part is that we won’t even have to drive an hour outside of the metroplex to see them.
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Remember the effort by the Russians to drill the deepest hole in the world? That took place not far from Sweden over in Nikel Oblast ~ right near the Pechanga river.
Most of that territory consists of ancient oceanic crust turned 90 degrees revealing the layers of Banded Iron Formations ~ making it one of the world's greatest sources of high quality iron ore (stretches all through the North from Russia into Sweden). Right there East of the Norwegian border there's Nikel, and the hole and the degraded remains of a very large Nickel-Iron Meteorite.
Anyway, it turned out to be a stupid idea to drill that hole in that area even though the Mohorovičić discontinuity is at it's shallowest (for a surface site) in that area. They gave up after more than a decade of drilling ~ and finding nothing.
Bet when that sucker hit that area and tipped over the banded iron formations it cracked the "crust" ~ allowing some upward movement of mantle material into the crust.
I am much more interested in the residual gold flour in that nickel iron meteorite. Does anyone have any idea if that was found yet? And was that iron pyrite or magnetite? Makes a difference in how much gold you can derive.
“There are microfossils in crude oil that indicate its biological origin.”
Microbes are found there, but that in no way proves they are the source of it’s origin. Explain to us the causality. There is none. There is not a single experiment or chemical equation, which explains how ANY microbe can take dead organic matter, and convert it into pertoleum.
Free Republic is highly unique when it comes to science. You have FReepers who are very well versed in the physical sciences and FReepers who completely ignorant on the subject. For the life of me, I can’t figure why the middle of the curve isn’t represented here.
With methane as a major product of fracking,what I`d like to see is a stop to the turning of our food into fuel! These leftist Einsteins do realize methane can be turned into methanol and with a little more work, into ethanol via conversion to ethane? Why the hell would anyone want to drive on our grain (food) supply?
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“There is not a single experiment or chemical equation, which explains how ANY microbe can take dead organic matter, and convert it into pertoleum.”
Who’s saying it does?
It was the same eviormenatists that said you can't cut the trees. I assume they knew that other trees would never replace the trees that were cut.
They destroyed the timber industry in the Northwestern US.
I’m sorry I bothered.
There are hydrocarbons elsewhere in the solar system; and presumably no Dinosaurs. So the it’s not unreasonable at all to question where those present on our own planet came from - and whether or not they’re still being generated via the same process.
I’ll answer it. Because the earth is like a large refinery. It takes a lot of heat over a long period of time for the organic matter to be cooked until it converts into crude oil. It usually generated between depths of 7,000 and 11,000’ feet, depending on the geothermal gradient of the basin. Below that, most of the time it becomes natural gas.
It is but the process is very slow. Then, the oil has to migrate from the source rock to a reservoir in order to become what we call a field.
Tell the assembled masses, what evidence is there for the perpetual creation of oil....if any..
Make that about 99.9%, at least those who are in the business of finding it and not looking for grant money at a university.
Oil is not thermally stable below around 11,000’ in most basins. In some cooler ones like the Gulf of Mexico and Nigeria, you can find it down to 20,000’ but it is a rarity. It breaks down into natural gas and eventually elemental carbon around 30,000’. There have been many wells drilled all over the world and all accumulations of oil have been found in basins. Oil and heat, say with vulcanism and plate collision zones, don’t mix. Gold was a moron out for publicity and grant money. Ask any serious geochemist.
You are correct. Mea culpa. However, I have friends and former coworkers telling me that there are numerous active drilling rigs in the Permian Basin. There would be a few on Otero Mesa right now, if it weren’t for a fella’ named Bill Richardson
Great stuff. Thanks.
May I answer a question with a question? What happens when after several hundred million wind mills are found to actually slow the earths’ orbit or the wind flows? Some young film student could have a field day with that one. @4 hour day? Not anymore. See what I mean? LOL
I’ve agreed with this theory ever since I read about the Soviet studies.
Coal IS made from old plants, same as peat. Coal is a true fossil fuel.
Now, I realize the Earth has gone through some cataclysmic gyrations over the past few million years. Continents shift and stuff gets buried, fair enough. But how did ENORMOUS beds of rotting plant material end up a MILE or more underground with a MILE of water on top of it? That just doesn’t make sense.
The idea that crude oil seeps up from below, through some bacterial or other process, makes much more sense. Look at those “black smoker” things at the bottom of the ocean!
Learn how to replicate the process in the lab and we’ve got energy security for the rest of human existence.
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