Past gas ping.
An endless supply of oil and gas would really piss off liberals. I sure hope its true.
Ruh roh raggy. You mean oil might not be biologically produced? might not be millions of years old? Might even be self-replenishing as a natural earth product? Thank You Lord for a wonderful source of energy from a bountiful planet.
I've always thought that's a heck of a lot of petroleum to be formed from plants.
Coal perhaps, but not gazzillions of barrels of oil.
If you'd take the Amazon forest and INSTANTLY covered it, crushed it, and heated it, the trees and plants and animals would crush down to about a foot thick, not 1000's of feet.
I've read that oil wells, once thought dried up, are once again filling up with oil. Suggesting that oil creation might be a recurring process.
I’ve always-since I heard of it-been a proponent of the Mendeleev Theory.
Another little-known fact is his work with Vodka, and his discovery of the “Three-Martini Lunch”.
I don't know the scientific arguments for biotic or abiotic origins for oil, gas, and coal. It doesn't seem to me that this would be an easy topic to resolve. If the origin in biological, one would expect to find remains of clearly biological origin, but perhaps heat and pressure could eradicate the evidence. If the origin is not biological, some biological “contamination” might still have occurred. Perhaps the “science” on this would still focus on the prevalence or relative absence of biological material, and the use of judgment.
The idea that our oil, gas and coal have a biological origin suggests to some that “we will run out.” Even that claim is not certain. A “finite” amount can still be a whole lot. In the Carter years the EPA did a study that concluded that, with a modest increase in price, there would be enough natural gas to last a few thousand years. That's finite, certainly not infinite, but still a lot.
Has anyone estimated how much oil, gas and coal should exist based upon the premise of biological origins? Maybe we have pumped more oil than should exist. Perhaps known discoveries of coal are more than should exist.
Makes sense.
Interesting!
I certainly don’t think that today’s oil is the result of prehistoric dinasaurs and plants - no friggin’ way!
The Earth produces oil the way the human body produces sweat. The ocean floor is constantly emitting oil.
Fossil fuels, the concept behind it, is not workable in today’s world. We know it isn’t.
H’mmm is this saying that the dinosaur’s didn’t die for our internal combustion engines?
I first heard of this abiotic thing from a guy named Thomas Gold.
It isn’t fully vetted yet, and there are some explanations for it, but the fact is that some capped wells, when uncapped, show an increase - sometimes significant - of oil, compared to when they were originally capped.
Does this mean we can inject carbon or CO2 into oil fields to make MORE oil?