Posted on 12/10/2022 9:48:38 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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MORE FROM THIS SOURCE — NATURE:
https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2008.542
[EXCERPT]
Undersea thermal vents can yield unexpected bounty: natural gas and the building blocks of oil products. In a new analysis of Lost City, a hydrothermal field in the mid-Atlantic, researchers have found that these organic molecules are being created through inorganic processes, rather than the more typical decomposition of once-living material.
Most of the planet’s oil and natural gas deposits were created when decomposing biological matter is ‘cooked’ in high temperatures underground. But non-biological hydrocarbons have also been found deep inside the Earth, where chemical processes create the molecules from inorganic sources such as rock.
Although researchers have seen some evidence for inorganic production of hydrogen in the ocean, Lost City ?is the first really clear example of a marine, deep-sea world where hydrocarbons are being synthesized abiotically,? says Giora Proskurowski of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, one of the researchers who made the discovery.
The Lost City hydrothermal vents, some of which are 60 metres tall, sit above magnesium- and iron-rich deposits called ‘ultramafic’ rock. The minerals contained in the rocks interact with water to produce an environment with plentiful hydrogen, making it chemically favourable for the creation of the hydrocarbon molecules that make up oil and gas.
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Hydrogen is the common common element in the universe. Carbon is the 4th. They have a ready affinity for each other and combine into chains of different lengths.
It’s semi retarded to decide that oil and gas can only be formed from dinosaurs.
Carbon is the 4th most common element in the universe. The earth is permeated with it.
RE: What is the source of the carbon atoms in abiotic oil?
This article from NATUREmight help answer the questions:
https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2008.542
I’ve long held this theory to be true.
It seems logical to me this is an on-going process that takes place, maybe at different rates, but continually over time.
There’s something like 12 trillion cf of natural gas in the Marcellus shale formation and the Utica shale formation is under that. Besides the climate change whackos, I can’t understand why a good portion of the NE and Mid-Atlantic doesn’t run nearly everything off natural gas
“ We call energy sources such as crude oil and natural gas fossil fuels based on the assumption that they are the products of decaying organisms, maybe even dinosaurs themselves.”
Hear hear! The idea that petroleum is a “fossil fuel” is nothing short of utter ignorance.
I was in grade school when I first heard the term ‘fossil fuel’ in school about crude oil.
I never believed it.
I was vindicated decades ago when research was published about dry oil wells in Texas producing again.
No surprise here - this isn’t new - and less that the left doesn’t like it.
Climate Change is the surreptitious device to castrate the otherwise powerful US.
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Glad more are starting to report this.
The fossil fuel hoax must be exposed constantly.
This is a logical assumption. We’ve been using a LOT of crude oil and natural gas. If it were truly a “fossil fuel” it would be in short supply but it isn’t. Coal is another story. It likely IS the remains of ancient plants that have been cooked underground in this wonderful energy furnace known as Earth.
I stated this years ago. Anyone who questions geosynthesis of oil needs to explain why the outer planets are flooded with hydrocarbons,
Oil could fall from the sky. It doesn’t matter. The woke Democrats won’t let us use it.
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