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Smiling takes 6.
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Oil Without Dinosaurs ?
The familiar tale is that “Prehistoric plants died and changed into oil and gas while sandwiched between layers of rock in the hot, high-pressure environment deep below Earth’s surface.”
The debunking in this Nov. 6 article actually “un-debunks” an old idea from the 19th century that methane and other hydrocarbons might be produced abiotically, without fossil fuels.
Long-held beliefs such as these are being overturned, after being held as “scientific truth” for decades or centuries.
Which brings up an interesting question -— How do we know that today’s current dogmas are invulnerable to turnarounds? A future discovery might even debunk the debunkers in these stories – some of whom debunked earlier debunkers.
Condemned civilization grasping at straws.
Kill them kill them all. Who are they?
Oil: The new renewable energy source.
“The new study describes a test of that idea, which dates to at least 1877 and famous Russian chemist Dimitri Mendeelev.”
An nobody looked at this again until now? What are we spending our research dollars on the mating positions
of horses?
How did dinosaurs get to Jupiter to make their methane seas?
It is not dinosaur dung, where the heck were they roaming off the coast of Brazil 5 to 7 miles down.
Actually this is a pretty viable theory. The Russians have developed several deep fields. Rotting dinosaurs can maybe explain some oil, but is an absurd theory for oil under several thousand feet of rock.
BP recently hit a major pool about 200 miles off Houston, in the gulf, beneath 2000 feet of water and something like 12,000 feet of Gulf seafloor. No way to explain how old dinosaurs and rotting swampgrass got there.
The major support for the dinosaur theory may simply be that it permits the “peak oil” crisis, much like the “global warming” crisis. In other words a rationale for the government controlling energy because “it is running out.”
Maybe the end of oil is a variation on Algore theology.
Actually this is a pretty viable theory. The Russians have developed several deep fields. Rotting dinosaurs can maybe explain some oil, but is an absurd theory for oil under several thousand feet of rock.
BP recently hit a major pool about 200 miles off Houston, in the gulf, beneath 2000 feet of water and something like 12,000 feet of Gulf seafloor. No way to explain how old dinosaurs and rotting swampgrass got there.
The major support for the dinosaur theory may simply be that it permits the “peak oil” crisis, much like the “global warming” crisis. In other words a rationale for the government controlling energy because “it is running out.”
Maybe the end of oil is a variation on Algore theology.
That would put in serious doubt "Peak Oil"
There is a process whereby a types of bacteria called methanogens can synthesize methane using C02 and H2 underground.
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It's free. And effectively eternal.
Ahh gives tear to ones eye
Methane co2 water oil one massive green renewable energy cycle
I had a discussion with a friend, who is a Geophysisist for Phillips Petroleum, regarding the possibility that petroleum deposits where not organic in origin, thus a much larger and renewable resource. He was open to the possibility, but had not seen enough evidence to support the theory. The context of our discussion was that if petroleum did not have to come from an organic source, could their possibly be petroleum resources on other planets, like Mars. If petroleum deposits could be found, recovered and refined on Mars, it makes Mars a much easier place to colonize, since you don’t have to take all your return trip fuel with you from Earth. Imagine having the gas station franchise there. ;)
Thanks for posting.
The biotic oil theory was needed because no one can explain how a flaming ball of fire could cool down and still contain carbon in the form of oil and gas. It is a necessary theory if you do not believe in a created earth. Perhaps God decided to add oil and gas to facilitate plate tectonics. In any case, the fossil fuel theory evokes scarcity. However, proven reserves keep growing the more that they look. Abiotic oil does not need a theory of origin. Only those who cannot believe that God created this earth perfectly formed need such a theory.
Science Daily article with potential ramifications upon geopolitics.
Related:Saturn’s orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397009/posts
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