No doubt WND and Mr. Corsi are working on some articles for pub.
Unless there used to be dinosaurs on Titan, there have to be other ways of getting methane other than that.
I believe that abiogenic oil is all they ever found.
Jupiter, Saturn and and any number of moons and comets are hip deep in methane and more complex hydrocarbons. Either that's prima facie evidence of ubiquitous life in the outer solar system, or abiotic methane/hydrocarbon formation.
No doubt WND and Mr. Corsi are working on some articles for pub.
Methane, and perhaps some traces of higher carbon molecules are definitely possible in deep planetary interiors. But crude oil is, and will only be found in biogenic sediments.
“...aside from the compression and heating of ancient animal remains over the eons...”
This theory makes no sense at all. How many animals/plants would it take to undergo this compression and heating in order to give us petroleum products for decades? And how this byproduct seeps miles into the earth? Appears to be a fable, not science.
If certain MOONS in our solar system have LAKES of frozen methane..
not to speak of Saturn and Neptune I would say Duuuuugh..
Methane appears to be a totally natural occurrence..
About 99 percent of all the hydrocarbons in oil and natural gas are derived from the compressed, heated remains of ancient living organisms like zooplankton and algae. These critters were buried under layers of sediments five to 10 miles beneath the surface of the Earth.
NOW I understand ..
It was that sudden dirt rain that buried the first earth, NOT a flood, that caused all this deep in the bowels of the earth stuff.
Dirt rain ..
Gott'a remember that ...
P4L
I have often written that “peak oil” is a dangerously specious concept because we do not buy crude oil to burn in our cars, trucks and airplanes, we buy a very technical liquid fuel product that is manufactured by breaking down and reassembling the atoms and molecules of hydrocarbon-rich feedstocks.
At present the most economic source of those hydrocarbons is crude oil, but any hydrocarbon-rick source could be used and the ONLY ISSUE IS COST. We are almost literally awash in hydrocarbons from coal, to natgas, to crude oil, to garbage and sewage sludge.
How will environmentalists react to the news that the earth itself is a hydrocarbon factory? They will attempt to suppress their use through fretting about CO2 levels of course. But when Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR) becomes a viable source of energy, how will they oppose it? Well, by fretting about waste heat. And thus we will see what “environmentalists” are really concerned about, which is human progress and prosperity.
