Posted on 05/25/2018 6:47:00 AM PDT by rktman
Yes, when the government forces everybody to use it. DPRK and Venezuela are good examples of government controlled power usage.
So your Eugene Island information seems to be this to me: initial oil production from that field over the years left a void so to speak, thus allowing space for the deeper deposits to migrate into.
In theory yes!
Conservation of Energy Formula
An object, or a closed system of objects, can have both kinetic and potential energy. The sum of the kinetic and potential energy of the object or system is called the total mechanical energy. If no outside forces act on the system, then the total mechanical energy is conserved. Energy can change from kinetic to potential energy, and back, without reducing the total energy. The sum of the kinetic and potential energy at an initial time will be equal to the sum of the kinetic and potential energy at any other time.
Often, a mechanical system is not fully closed. Either the system can do work on the surroundings (for example, by heating), or work can be done on the system (for example, air resistance, or friction). In this case, a term for “other work” is added to the formula to account for the change in total mechanical energy. The unit of energy and work is Joules (J).
K1 = initial kinetic energy (Joules, J)
U1 = initial potential energy (J)
wother = other work, gained or lost to the system (J)
K2 = final kinetic energy (J)
U2 = final potential energy (J)
We have hydropower.
Rain keeps filling the reservoirs, all on its own.
Seen Lake Mead lately? ;-)
Technically, energy is neither created nor destroyed. It’s transferred.
You can get to ‘virtually unlimited’. Every rock you roll down a hill had to get to the top of the hill some how.
There’s enough Thorium around that you could make super-cheap electrical energy AND enough by-product heat you could use to convert seawater into distilled water.
Pickle the distilled water and you have drinking water, or water for irrigation.
Thorium plants are small too.
There’s a ton of hydrogen. If you could economically contain the plasma, then you’d be at that ‘virtually unlimited’ point.
If Tesla’s to be believed, The earth is a big iron ball wrapped in insulation, turning through a magnetic field. It creates so much static electricity that you don’t need to generate any electricity at all. The Earth generates more than plenty.
I used to know the accepted average number of strikes per day, but it was in the realm of 186,000. Each strike consists of millions of watts.
Harvest it out of the air, then send it at high frequency either over the ground or through the air to anywhere you want. That’s what Wardencliff was all about. When his investors found out that Wardencliff was about free power, freely distributed, they yanked his funding.
I visited the Hoover Dam about 7 years back. If I recall correctly they had 7 turbines on each side NV & AZ.
They only had two turbines running on each side. If they opened the gates to all the turbines to make more electricity it would empty Lake Mead in a short time.
Oh, gee. One instance where a fault burped and gas came up from below.
One field that had a fault move and gas migrated up from a reservoir below. That is one field out of tens of thousands. I wish that there was a oil and gas “tooth” fairy but it just ain’t so. That field is a drop in the bucket compared to world-wide production.
Sorry, that is simply not true.
According to DOE, solar power provides 2% of our energy, and windmills 0.6% (rounded down to 0% for statistics). Dangerous fools. They used to have bumper stickers that said, “Split wood, not atoms.” Elite morons.
So your Eugene Island information seems to be this to me: initial oil production from that field over the years left a void so to speak, thus allowing space for the deeper deposits to migrate into.”
Yes, exactly.
OK.
What is needed to synthesize crude oil?
Carbon and hydrogen
OK...those two basic elements. It has been demonstrated that a type or some types of algae can be synthesized into a form of crude oil under heat and pressure within hours instead of eons.
What I’m suggesting is those two elements exist or are locked up in some form within rock formations at 5,000 feet where heat and pressure is the routine environment. Could there be activity going on down there unlocking or just simply converting whatever to crude...all the time?
Sure!, We just need a device that takes atmospheric energy and converts it into usable power that is self sustaining. Where is John Galt when you need him.
The 19th century was the last century of green renewable energy.
How did dinosaur carcasses end up 5,000 feet below grade?
Good question, and I am glad you asked. If you can show evidence of dinosaurs one mile below the surface, it will be the result of plate tectonics. As for the deep reservoirs of hydrocarbons deep below the surface on Earth, it got there the same way all that hydrocarbon goo, appears on Titan, Saturn’s moon, and in Interstellar gas clouds.
https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4616
In any event, the POINT is that life on Earth, by the respiration process of PLANTS, STORES energy in the Oceans, and the air, in the form of free oxygen. Free Oxygen would not have appeared today as 16% of the Atmosphere, had not life put it there. The atmosphere of the proto Earth, billions of years ago, was mostly methane. For all intents and purposes, there is no combustion without oxygen. All fuel engines convert the energy stored in atmospheric free oxygen, into work.
Other compounds besides hydrocarbons can rapidly oxidize, to release energy. Look it up.
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