interesting theory here:
http://www.gsanctuary.com/3craters.html#fig3
Posted on 10/07/2006 6:33:48 PM PDT by Fred Nerks
interesting theory here:
http://www.gsanctuary.com/3craters.html#fig3
Maybe we should get into the snake oi- I mean, abiogenic petroleum business. We'd have a crowd of ready-made suckers for our super cheap, super powerful oil.
btt
Oh geez, somebody else who gets his scientific education from WingNutDaily....
In many or in all instances? And if that's true why can't we just synthesize crude or farm it or something?
L
Really? Why?
What were you planning on using for an oxidizer?
Considering how much of the earth has been affected by impacts it would impossible to prove this theory wrong. That is without (fill in the blanks) millions of dollars in research.
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Or finding oil on the moon.
btt
Mikhailo Vasilevich Lomonosov 1711-1765
I'll pay for it COD.
I get the oil, then you get the cash.
L
It's being researched...
http://www.greenfuelonline.com/news/algaefuel.pdf#search=%22diatoms%20petroleum%22
Synthesizing the stuff would be loads cheaper than trying to import it from asteroids.
L
Well, considering the billions of tons of diatoms that have lived and died on the earth in the last couple hundred millions of years, it's still far cheaper to simply pump the petroleum resulting from them out of the ground.
Oil Czar and ally
Posted by JohnHuang2
On News/Activism 10/12/2001 1:42:24 AM EDT · 3 replies · 145+ views
TownHall.com | Friday, October 12, 2001 | Larry Kudlow
TownHall.com: Conservative Columnists: Larry KudlowQUICK LINKS: HOME | NEWS | OPINION | RIGHTPAGES | CHAT | WHAT'S NEWtownhall.comLarry Kudlow (back to story)October 12, 2001Oil Czar and ally Almost unnoticed in the wave of economic pessimism accompanying the war against terrorism is the precipitous plunge of oil prices. Since shortly after the Sept.11 bombing, oil has dropped about 25 percent from $30 a barrel to nearly $22. Gasoline prices at the pump have slipped $0.20 to $1.30. Just as negative oil shocks act on the economy like tax hikes, this (SET ITAL) tax-cut (END ITAL) like decline will surely boost ...
Scientist stirs the cauldron: oil, he says, is renewable
Posted by Aurelius
On News/Activism 11/19/2001 1:07:24 PM EST · 208 replies · 2,238+ views
Boston Globe | May 22, 2001 | David L. Chandler
SCIENTIST STIRS THE CAULDRON: OIL, HE SAYS, IS RENEWABLEDavid L. Chandler, Globe staff Date: May 22, 2001 Page: A14 Section: Health Science It's as basic as the terminology people use in discussing sources of energy: On the one hand, there are "fossil fuels," left over from the decayed remains of millions of years worth of vegetation and destined to run out before long; on the other hand, there are "renewable" resources that could sustain human activities indefinitely. But what if fossil fuels aren't fossils, but are actually renewable and virtually inexhaustible? To most people, that question may sound as ...
The world has more oil not less
Posted by ATOMIC_PUNK
On News/Activism 12/24/2001 2:55:44 PM EST · 36 replies · 1,466+ views
anxietycenter.com | By Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba If you do an Internet search for "oil reserves", you get a ton of information, much of it announcements by various nations saying they have discovered vast potential new fields of crude oil and are, not surprisingly, eager to tap them. Then why are being told that we have to cut back consumption? The answer is political, not geological. The most casual look at the UN Kyoto Climate Control Treaty reveals the economic devastation that would occur if this and other industrialized nations were forced to cut back to 1990 levels of energy use. Economists warn ...
Supplies of oil may be inexhaustible
Posted by jimkress
On News/Activism 05/29/2002 11:18:56 AM EDT · 93 replies · 490+ views
Detroit News | 5/29/2002 | Bruce Bartlett
<p>On April 16, Newsday, the Long Island newspaper, published a startling report that old oil fields in the Gulf of Mexico were somehow being refilled. That is, new oil was being discovered in fields where it previously had not existed.</p>
Oil Without End?
Posted by CalConservative
On News/Activism 02/16/2003 12:47:02 AM EST · 24 replies · 1,056+ views
Fortune | 2/4/03 | Julie Creswell
BRAINSTORMOil Without End? Revisionists say oil isn't a fossil fuel. That could mean there's lots more of it. FORTUNE Tuesday, February 4, 2003 By Julie Creswell In the quiet waters off the coast of Vietnam lies an area known as Bach Ho, or White Tiger Field. There, and in the nearby Black Bear and Black Lion fields, exploration companies are drilling more than a mile into solid granite--so-called basement rock--for oil. That's a puzzle: Oil isn't supposed to be found in basement rock, which never rose near the surface of the earth where ancient plants grew and dinosaurs walked. Yet...
Anything into Oil(solution to dependence on foregn oil?)
Posted by honway
On News/Activism 04/21/2003 8:57:41 AM EDT · 142 replies · 7,435+ views
DISCOVER Vol. 24 No. 5 | May 2003 | Brad Lemley
In an industrial park in Philadelphia sits a new machine that can change almost anything into oil. Really. "This is a solution to three of the biggest problems facing mankind," says Brian Appel, chairman and CEO of Changing World Technologies, the company that built this pilot plant and has just completed its first industrial-size installation in Missouri. "This process can deal with the world's waste. It can supplement our dwindling supplies of oil. And it can slow down global warming." Pardon me, says a reporter, shivering in the frigid dawn, but that sounds too good to be true. "Everybody says...
Abiotic Theory of Oil Formation
Posted by narses
On News/Activism 06/10/2004 12:15:38 AM EDT · 67 replies · 1,052+ views
The Environmental Literacy Council
There is an alternative theory about the formation of oil and gas deposits that could change estimates of potential future oil reserves. According to this theory, oil is not a fossil fuel at all, but was formed deep in the Earth's crust from inorganic materials. The theory was first proposed in the 1950s by Russian and Ukranian scientists. Based on the theory, successful exploratory drilling has been undertaken in the Caspian Sea region, Western Siberia, and the Dneiper-Donets Basin. The prevailing explanation for the formation of oil and gas deposits is that they are the remains of plant and animal...
About Coal: America's most abundant energy resource
Posted by xzins
On News/Activism 10/07/2004 4:05:50 AM EDT · 15 replies · 864+ views
Clean Energy
About Coal America's most abundant energy resource and a source of chemicals, fertilizer, and power worldwide. Bookmarks on this Page Introduction Domestic Resources Domestic Consumption World Resources World Consumption Introduction Coal is the generic name for a solid hydrocarbon substance that has been burned as fuel for hundreds of years. Thanks to technological advances, coal can now be converted into a synthesis gas that can be used as a feedstock for the production of chemicals, fertilizer, and electric power. Webster defines coal as "a black or brownish black solid combustible substance formed by the partial decomposition of vegetable matter...
Fossil Fuels Made without Fossils
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 10/29/2004 1:55:18 AM EDT · 18 replies · 1,018+ views
Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences | 9/13/2004 5:01 PM | Gabe Romain
The researchers squeezed materials common at the Earth's surface -- iron oxide, calcite and water -- to pressures ranging from 50,000 to 110,000 times the pressure at sea level. They then heated the samples to temperatures up to 1,500?C (2,700?F). They were able to get methane to form by reducing the carbon in calcite over a wide range of temperatures and pressures, supporting the possibility that the deep Earth may produce abiogenic hydrocarbons.
Hydrogen Production Method Could Bolster Fuel Supplies
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 11/28/2004 1:23:36 AM EST · 85 replies · 2,094+ views
NY Times | November 28, 2004 | MATTHEW L. WALD
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 - Researchers at a government nuclear laboratory and a ceramics company in Salt Lake City say they have found a way to produce pure hydrogen with far less energy than other methods, raising the possibility of using nuclear power to indirectly wean the transportation system from its dependence on oil. The development would move the country closer to the Energy Department's goal of a "hydrogen economy," in which hydrogen would be created through a variety of means, and would be consumed by devices called fuel cells, to make electricity to run cars and for other purposes. Experts...
Methane on Mars: the plot thickens
Posted by LibWhacker
On News/Activism 08/02/2005 3:00:01 PM EDT · 29 replies · 776+ views
New Scientist | 8/02/05 | Maggie McKee
Methane on Mars may be produced at rates 3000 times higher than previously thought and partially destroyed by dust storms, controversial new research suggests. The work is sure to reignite the debate over a possible biological origin for the gas, but another team reports that subsurface volcanism alone - and not life - can account for the gas. Sunlight is thought to destroy methane molecules in Mars's atmosphere over about 300 years. So recent discoveries of the gas by space- and ground-based instruments suggested it is actively being replenished by geological processes or ñ possibly ñ living microbes. The mystery...
Shaped from clay [origin of life]
Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 11/04/2005 8:00:06 AM EST · 345 replies · 3,391+ views
Nature Magazine | 03 November 2005 | Philip Ball
Minerals help molecules thought to have been essential for early life to form. A team of US scientists may have found the 'primordial womb' in which the first life on Earth was incubated. Lynda Williams and colleagues at Arizona State University in Tempe have discovered that certain types of clay mineral convert simple carbon-based molecules to complex ones in conditions mimicking those of hot, wet hydrothermal vents (mini-volcanoes on the sea bed). Such complex molecules would have been essential components of the first cell-like systems on Earth. Having helped such delicate molecules to form, the clays can also protect them...
At 30,000 feet down, where were the dinosaurs?
Posted by ovrtaxt
On News/Activism 11/29/2005 6:26:34 AM EST · 72 replies · 3,025+ views
WorldNetDaily.com | November 29, 2005 | Jerome Corsi
At 30,000 feet down, where were the dinosaurs? Posted: November 29, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern ©†2005†WorldNetDaily.com Developments in deep-drilling for natural gas present serious challenges to those who still maintain "Fossil-Fuel" theories as to the origin of complex hydrocarbon fuels. The Western world's record for deep-well natural-gas exploration and production is held by the GHK Company in Oklahoma. From 1972 through 1974, the company engineered and drilled two Oklahoma natural-gas commercial wells at depths greater than 30,000 feet (approximately 5.7 miles) ñ the No. 1-27 Bertha Rogers well (total depth 31,441 feet) and the No. 1-28 E.R. Baden well, both located...
'Fossil fuel' theory takes hit with NASA finding
Posted by seastay
On News/Activism 12/02/2005 10:00:55 PM EST · 150 replies · 3,412+ views
worldnetdaily | December 1, 2005
New study shows methane on Saturn's moon Titan not biological NASA scientists are about to publish conclusive studies showing abundant methane of a non-biologic nature is found on Saturn's giant moon Titan, a finding that validates a new book's contention that oil is not a fossil fuel. "We have determined that Titan's methane is not of biologic origin," reports Hasso Niemann of the Goddard Space Flight Center, a principal NASA investigator responsible for the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer aboard the Cassini-Huygens probe that landed on Titan Jan. 14. Niemann concludes the methane "must be replenished by geologic processes on Titan,...
UC Riverside Researchers Identify Clay as Major Contributor to Oxygen that Enabled Early Animal Life
Posted by PatrickHenry
On News/Activism 02/03/2006 6:49:20 AM EST · 35 replies · 685+ views
University of California, Riverside | February 2, 2006 | Iqbal Pittalwala
Study suggests steps a planet must go through for complex animal life to arise. Clay made animal life possible on Earth, a UC Riverside-led study finds. A sudden increase in oxygen in the Earthís recent geological history, widely considered necessary for the expansion of animal life, occurred just as the rate of clay formation on the Earthís surface also increased, the researchers report. ìOur study shows for the first time that the initial soils covering the terrestrial surface of Earth increased the production of clay minerals and provided the critical geochemical processes necessary to oxygenate the atmosphere and support multicellular...
Oil Is Well: The Shortage Is A Myth, And Not A New One
Posted by rdmartinjd
On News/Activism 06/04/2006 10:59:38 AM EDT · 42 replies · 1,233+ views
TheVanguard.Org | 2 June 2006 | Rod D. Martin
"America has no shortage of oil... Washington, DC has a shortage of the political will required to let American workers go get it." -- Rep. Richard Pombo (R-CA) With oil prices reaching record levels, the left is up to its old tricks, blaming the President and calling for lots of expensive big government ìsolutionsî. As part of this push, they argue that we're running out of oil. But clearly, this argument is not new -- and it's dead wrong. In 1874, Pennsylvania's state geologist fretted that America had only a four-year supply of oil left. He was wrong. In 1914,...
Marine Methane Heats Things Up
Posted by neverdem
On News/Activism 09/02/2006 12:17:01 AM EDT · 24 replies · 516+ views
ScienceNOW Daily News | 28 August 2006 | Julie Rehmeyer
Oil seeping from the seafloor may have contributed to climate change long before the internal combustion engine did. The petroleum deposits are rich in the powerful greenhouse gas methane, which, according to a new study, may have played a major role in two previous episodes of global warming. Bedrock below the ocean bottom keeps a lid on oil reservoirs, but it's not an impermeable cap. Small cracks allow petroleum and methane to bubble to the surface. Once there, the petroleum oxidizes and turns to tar, which sinks. Meanwhile, the methane drifts into the atmosphere, where it makes up about 15%...
Peak oil theorists don't know Jack ( It Could Increase U.S. Reserves by 50% )
Posted by demlosers
On News/Activism 09/06/2006 1:03:24 AM EDT · 93 replies · 1,956+ views
Globe and Mail | 5 September 2006 | PATRICK BRETHOUR
The elephants aren't extinct yet. Chevron Corp. and its partners say they have tapped into an area that may contain as much as 15 billion barrels of oil in the ultradeep waters of the Gulf of Mexico -- the kind of massive reservoir of crude that the industry dubs an elephant discovery. The days of such discoveries were supposedly gone, with oil supplies peaking as the world simply ran out of big oil-producing fields, according to pessimistic forecasters. Instead, high technology and sky-high oil prices have combined to transform dud prospects into billions of barrels of crude. ìThe industry is...
Earth's Hidden Oil ReservesHenry Scott of Indiana University South Bend... who had read Gold’s 1998 book The Deep Hot Biosphere... simulated the conditions within the mantle using a diamond anvil apparatus. He took two diamonds with flattened tips; heated them up; stuck some iron (II) oxide, calcite and water between them; and pushed the diamonds together. The setup generated temperatures up to 1,500°C and 100,000 times the pressure found at sea level. These conditions forced the carbon in the calcite to react with the hydrogen in the water, forming methane. All of which indicates that simple hydrocarbons -- but not necessarily their heavier counterparts, oil and natural gas -- could exist deep within the earth. In his next experiment, Scott plans to move up to the heavier stuff. But even if he does find that there could be oil reserves in the mantle, don’t expect the price at the pump to drop. At the 62-to-186-mile depth that Gold suggested, even the most ambitious oilman wouldn’t get to it anytime soon.
by Gregory Mone
And if you step too close to the edge you'll fall off....
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