Posted on 09/11/2009 11:46:37 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Researchers at KTH have been able to prove that the fossils of animals and plants are not necessary to generate raw oil and natural gas. This result is extremely radical as it means that it will be much easier to find these energy sources and that they may be located all over the world.
“With the help of our research we even know where oil could be found in Sweden!” says Vladimir Kutcherov, Professor at the KTH Department of Energy Technology in Stockholm.
Together with two research colleagues, Professor Kutcherov has simulated the process of pressure and heat that occurs naturally in the inner strata of the earth’s crust. This process generates hydrocarbons, the primary elements of oil and natural gas.
According to Vladimir Kutcherov, these results are a clear indication that oil supplies are not drying up, which has long been feared by researchers and experts in the field.
Van Jones is not amused. ;o)
ROFLMAO!
does not matter...our messiah and the fakirs in charge in the Senate and the House wants us to be a 3rd world kingdom of poor serfs, beholding to the rulers for everything....and using donkeys and goats to pull our little carts to market to sell our baubles.
This debate has been going on for a while. I’m no expert, so my opinion is not worth much but here it is anyway. Evidence that I have read seems to suggest that oil really is actually produced by the planet. I think Thomas Gold was the guy that first wrote about this.
As someone who has spent his whole career looking for the stuff, I wish it were that easy.
No, they want US pulling our carts to market, with the donkeys and goats roaming free.
Supporting evidence for this is when a company drains an old field and comes back 10 or 20 years later to suck up any residue, they sometimes find that oil has seeped up into the empty spaces, filling up the previously-empty reservior with oil that is geologically younger than the previously-extracted oil. This is counter intuitive, since oil at a lower level should actually be OLDER than the oil on top of it. Wierd.
I don't profess to know anything about it except what I have just explained, and several old oil men have laughed loudly when I mentioned the theory to them. Still, it would be cool.
the democRATS’ Cap and Trade scheme is not based oil supply but on consumption. We could have oil coming out of our Barackholes and they would still want cap and trade.
Nice! Thanks
Any idea how much total Oil we have taken out of the ground these past decades?
It has to be an incredible amount. I’m unsure if all the dead material that created oil in theory is enough to cover what we have taken out of the ground. -shrug-
One thing I could never understand is how sulfur gets in the oil.
Sulfur is a volcanic product, from deep in the earth, and no organism decaying yields enough sulfur to produce all the sulfurous oil out there.
Also, aren’t there reports of fields that had been pumped dry, but years later were replenishing themselves with oil?
Peak lack of oil!
“As someone who has spent his whole career looking for the stuff, I wish it were that easy.”
So have these researchers found any of the stuff in Sweden, yet?
(To back up their claims)
I had someone ask me today why they were going to regulate toilet water volume and lightbulb usage, but not something else (don’t remember what) -
and it IS, indeed, all about the elitists controlling our consumption.
It’s all about controlling our consumption and our standard of living based on that consumption.
Sulfur kills plants,
so why is there so much sulfur in coal,
which is supposedly compressed plant matter.
Yes. I understand that in some cases it is just that technology has allowed us to get at previously capped oil, in some cases the high price of oil has made it economically feasible to go after the oil that was otherwise to expensive to extract, and yet in other cases there is just plain more oil there.
>>This is counter intuitive, since oil at a lower level should actually be OLDER than the oil on top of it. Wierd.<<
Unless the new stuff is seeping up from underneath.
But at this point, and to us lay people it is just, as you said, weird.
Exactly.
Also, oil fields are always located in porous rock (from what I read), allowing seepage up from below (since oil is lighter). Has any oil ever been discovered isolated in solid, non-porous rock?
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