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Deep-ocean vents are a source of oil and gas (evidence of abiogenic hydrocarbons)
Nature News ^
| 31 January 2008
| Rachel Courtland
Posted on 01/31/2008 9:42:53 PM PST by neverdem
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01/31/2008 9:42:56 PM PST
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neverdem
To: cogitator; xcamel; Tolerance Sucks Rocks
The earth is causing climate change!
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01/31/2008 9:45:26 PM PST
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neverdem
(I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
To: neverdem
Ah-Hah! That’s what George Norie has been saying all along.
To: neverdem
If only this could be true so we can tell the Arabs and Muslims to drop dead.
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01/31/2008 9:50:19 PM PST
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garyhope
(It's World War IV, right here, right now, courtesy of Islam.)
To: El Gato; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Robert A. Cook, PE; lepton; LadyDoc; jb6; tiamat; PGalt; Dianna; ...
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01/31/2008 9:53:47 PM PST
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neverdem
(I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
To: Army Air Corps
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01/31/2008 9:58:48 PM PST
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Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: neverdem
You know, it’s completely likely that the fissile materials heating the earth’s core are producing some sort of energetic by-product, like how fast reactors produce plutonium. I don’t know if we’re burning it faster than it replenishes itself, though.
To: neverdem
The evidence is evenly split from what I’ve read at this point. Thinking that the earth doesn’t make it’s own hydrocarbons is to put tape over your telescope. We see it made by non-living forces in our own solar system. But the earth is running out. Strange.
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01/31/2008 10:07:53 PM PST
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kinoxi
To: Telepathic Intruder
To: Telepathic Intruder
Telepathic Intruder said:
"I dont know if were burning it faster than it replenishes itself, though." Perhaps more importantly in the short term, abiotic creation of hydrocarbons may mean that there is much still to be found.
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01/31/2008 10:19:56 PM PST
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William Tell
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To: William Tell
Of course, it just depends on how far you dig. In that case however, the most efficient route is geothermal energy. Drill a hole 10 or 20 miles deep, pour water in and have an almost inexhustible supply of steam power.
To: neverdem
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01/31/2008 10:31:41 PM PST
by
redhead
(VICTORY FIRST, THEN PEACE)
To: neverdem
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01/31/2008 10:40:52 PM PST
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old-ager
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01/31/2008 10:50:57 PM PST
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neverdem
(I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
To: neverdem
Very interesting....we need to put a cap over it...
To: neverdem
Thanks neverdem. There may also be an even earlier topic than this one:
Lost City pumps life-essential chemicals at rates unseen at typical black smokers
University of Washington | January 31, 2008 | Unknown
Posted on 01/31/2008 4:28:30 PM EST by decimon
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1962790/posts
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01/31/2008 10:57:37 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
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01/31/2008 11:26:52 PM PST
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neverdem
(I have to hope for a brokered GOP Convention. It can't get any worse.)
To: neverdem
Since when is the biological origin of “most” oil and gas anything more than a theory?
To: neverdem
Subduction carries carbonates into the earth where they are heated and broken down over millions of years. When the carbon wells up into the crust as carbides it comes in contact with water, and produces hydrocarbons. Calcium carbide produces acetylene, and I think I remember working with aluminum carbide which produced methane. I’m sure there are plenty of other carbides as well.
My grandfather taught me all this in the 60s when plate tectonics was being worked out.
To: neverdem
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02/01/2008 12:03:43 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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