Posted on 04/25/2013 1:38:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
As the great research ship Chikyu left Shimizu in January to mine the explosive ice beneath the Philippine Sea, chances are good that not one of the scientists aboard realized they might be closing the door on Winston Churchills world. Their lack of knowledge is unsurprising; beyond the ranks of petroleum-industry historians, Churchills outsize role in the history of energy is insufficiently appreciated.
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was appointed First Lord of the Admiralty in 1911. With characteristic vigor and verve, he set about modernizing the Royal Navy, jewel of the empire. The revamped fleet, he proclaimed, should be fueled with oil, rather than coala decision that continues to reverberate in the present. Burning a pound of fuel oil produces about twice as much energy as burning a pound of coal. Because of this greater energy density, oil could push ships faster and farther than coal could.
Churchills proposal led to emphatic dispute. The United Kingdom had lots of coal but next to no oil. At the time, the United States produced almost two-thirds of the worlds petroleum; Russia produced another fifth. Both were allies of Great Britain. Nonetheless, Whitehall was uneasy about the prospect of the Navys falling under the thumb of foreign entities, even if friendly. The solution, Churchill told Parliament in 1913, was for Britons to become the owners, or at any rate, the controllers at the source of at least a proportion of the supply of natural oil which we require. Spurred by the Admiralty, the U.K. soon bought 51 percent of what is now British Petroleum, which had rights to oil at the source: Iran (then known as Persia). The concessions terms were so unpopular in Iran that they helped spark a revolution....
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So... what’s the “nightmare”?
Suuuure it’s all “dead dinosaurs”.
Suuuure.
We won't be able to starve the peasants and tell them it's because we ran out of oil.
We'll just have to do it au naturel.
Basically that we’ll never need solar, wind power and unicorn toots as a viable energy source, since petroleum appears to be infinite here on Earth. Al Gore wept, so to speak.
Yeah, we always knew it was about denying “commoners” access to energy.
It’s been known for quite a while now that oil is produced from ROCK. Most likely, deep coal deposits heated by the core.
Blame the Earths Core ,it’s cooking it up and sending it to us
The USA had more carbon based energy than anyone on earth. We can even make crude out of garbage. The nightmare is that the religion of Environmentalism can not control the earth through energy blackmail.
“Basically that well never need solar, wind power and unicorn toots as a viable energy source, since petroleum appears to be infinite here on Earth. Al Gore wept, so to speak.”
A Swede who noticed hydrocarbons in spectral analysis of clouds in space (where there were never any dinosaurs)that oil is a naturally occurring fuel. He convinced the Swedish government to dig 5 miles down, WAY passed any dinosaur remains. They found oil. Turns out they find it almost anywhere they did that deep. It occurs naturally; without fossils.
They’ll find it as long as they drill in old sea basins where it began it’s creation.
/johnny
Not too many years ago the oil people drilling in the gulf found that the reserves are NOT depleting. They felt that there is oil still being made and of course one or two barrels not yet discovered.
Think about the power shift this admission would cause. The Middle East would go back to being the godforsaken wasteland it has been for millennia; Arabs and muslimes would go back to being bearded warblers with prayer rugs; the US could withdraw from a lot of murderous foreign entanglements and clean up our own back yard. And countries like Venezuela, Brazil, and Nigeria could return to chasing each other around with pointed sticks. our trade deficit would all but disappear and the dollar would be good as gold. we would retake our place at the top of the civilization heap and let the barbarians hack each other into chum.
Which is why the Globalist kumbaya crowd cannot let it happen.
it is the result of Methane rising from the earths core as a gas and condensing as it cools.
http://www.amazon.com/Deep-Hot-Biosphere-Thomas-Gold/dp/0387985468
Suppose someone claimed that we are not running out of petroleum? Or that life on Earth began below the surface of our planet? Or that oil and gas are not “fossil fuels”? Or that if we find extraterrestrial life it is likely to be within, not on, other planets? You might expect to hear statements like these from an author of science fiction. But what if they came from a renowned physicist, an indisputably brilliant scientist who has been called “one of the world’s most original minds”? In the The Deep Hot Biosphere, Thomas Gold sets forth truly controversial and astonishing theories about where oil and gas come from, and how they acquire their organic “signatures.” The conclusions he reaches in this book might be at first difficult to believe, but they are supported by a growing body of evidence, and by the indisputabel stature and seriousness Gold brings to any scientific enterprise. In this book we see a brilliant and boldly orginal thinker, increasingly a rarity in modern science, as he developes a revolutionary new view about the fundamental workings of our planet. Thomas Gold is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society, and an Emertius Professor at Cornell University. Regarded as one of the most creative and wide-ranging scientists of his generation, he has taughtat Cambridge University and Harvard, and for 20 years was the Director of the Cornell Center for Radiophysics and Space Research.
Miracle for Republicans, nightmare for Democrats.
Hitler had his scientists produce synthetic oil so why should the Earth not do the same?
“Saturn’s moon, Titan, is loaded with light hydrocarbons, including methane and ethane. It rains methane on Titan.”
It has been recently discovered that thermophilic bacteria, in the sea bottom and in cooling magma, produce methane and hydrocarbon gases,[4][5] but studies indicate they are not produced in commercially significant quantities (i.e. in extracted hydrocarbon gases, the median abiogenic hydrocarbon content is 0.02%, or 1 part in 5,000).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin
Remeber Richard Dreyfuss in Close Encounters of the Third Kind?
Uncle Sugar needed the area 2b clear, so they made up this huge lie about a baaaad nerve gas spill. Everyone is fleeing, terrified, and in gas-masks.
Everyone but Richard Dreyfuss, who understands the air is clear, and to the amazement of all, dramatically takes off his mask. And then —NOTHING.
The air was FINE —the emergency was simply a handy government tool.
That would never really happen.
Right?
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