Posted on 02/02/2008 1:52:27 AM PST by Fred Nerks
New evidence supports premise that Earth produces endless supply
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A study published in Science Magazine today presents new evidence supporting the abiotic theory for the origin of oil, which asserts oil is a natural product the Earth generates constantly rather than a "fossil fuel" derived from decaying ancient forests and dead dinosaurs.
The lead scientist on the study Giora Proskurowski of the School of Oceanography at the University of Washington in Seattle says the hydrogen-rich fluids venting at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in the Lost City Hydrothermal Field were produced by the abiotic synthesis of hydrocarbons in the mantle of the earth.
The abiotic theory of the origin of oil directly challenges the conventional scientific theory that hydrocarbons are organic in nature, created by the deterioration of biological material deposited millions of years ago in sedimentary rock and converted to hydrocarbons under intense heat and pressure.
While organic theorists have posited that the material required to produce hydrocarbons in sedimentary rock came from dinosaurs and ancient forests, more recent argument have suggested living organisms as small as plankton may have been the origin...
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Aha. Thank you.
“But now there is strong evidence that at least some of those gorges were cut almost instantly by massive flash floods when glaciers holding back seas of water broke.”
You betcha. I’ve always been impressed by this place close by H’way 97:
http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/chasm.html
Check out the photo gallery!
Oil and gas deposits always (well as far as I know) have three things in common. A permeable rock like sandstone to store it, a hard rock to prevent it from escaping and a source.The Russian oil induistry has drilled in other geological regimes and found oil, hence their belief in the abiotic theory.
I’ve asked many people to show me one place where oil is being recovered that wasn’t an ancient sea bed. So far it’s zip, Nada.
>> Oil and gas deposits always (well as far as I know) have three things in common. A permeable rock like sandstone to store it, a hard rock to prevent it from escaping and a source.
I’m not arguing, because this isn’t an area where I claim great knowledge - but I would appreciate any reference or link you had on that since it is not something I have read about.
Leading edge baby boomers moved into management... As a boomer, let me say that for all their protests and demands about 'let me be free to be me' the boomers, especially from the first half, were the most lemminglike generation. They had the "uniform" of jeans and white t-shirts to be distinct from other generations, but not from each other. They moved en-masse from movement to movement, and expected others to take care of the details of life for them, to free them up for 'social consciousness'. The Generation between the Greatest Generation and the boomers, those who were too young for WWII but too old to be part of the 'boom' loved being able to lead all those young kids around, and those are who the lemmings followed.
As they've moved through life, the boomers have demanded en masse whatever was important at their stage of life: free love when they were teenagers; a childproof world when they were parents; medical insurance that covered everything when they got old enough to start having health problems, freedom from personal responsibility for business decisions when they were in charge of businesses, and now free medical everything now that they're looking at retiring and not having health insurance.
That's really where I see the hope for the future - those people in another 10 years or so will be just to old to be activists for anything. That is what you see in board rooms though - they were activists when other people were on the board and had to take responsibility for what happened, but now that they are in the board room they don't want to be held accountable for anything. They change the rules when they can to avoid personal responsibility, and where they can't they refuse to do anything they could be held responsible.
Kinda like what happens in the pool the morning after one partakes of prodigious quantities of Swan Lagers.
I had an interesting experience about 3 weeks ago. I was standing in line at the supermarket with a pretty full cart.
There was a fellow in a wheelchair behind me who just had a couple things, so I asked him if he wanted to go first, because the line was long.
He said no, he was in no hurry, he was just enjoying himself, and had just retired from 25 tears of work up north.
He had had an aneurysm on his aorta and they fixed it but had to take it easy.
He had been a hydraulic engineer.
In Alaska.
At Prudhoe Bay.
I talked to him long enough to know that HE KNEW what he was talking about. He said he saw samples of oil that were so pure they practically looked like Wesson corn oil.
It would amaze him if we’ve gotten even two percent of what’s up there.
According to him, it’s very rare for any exploration to go on and NOT FIND oil. It’s ALL OVER the Alaska coastline and surveys in the Arctic ocean CONSISTENTLY show VAST quantities of oil.
A very interesting chat... and I believe him!
Well, I don’t know about that. What I DO know is petroleum is mainly comprised of five elements - CHONS - all light and easily modified (relatively speaking of course).
What this means is when mass production nanotechnology comes around in around 25 years or so, it will be quite easy to manufacture petroleum or any hydrocarbons, whether they be alkanes or even asphaltenes. Living organisms won’t be necessary in the process at all.
So, in that sense, all produced petroleum would be abiotic.
I do understand the skepticism - we in the West have always considered petroleum to be a fossil fuel. I’m merely pointing out there’s a lot we still don’t know and the presence of complex hydrocarbons and methane (which can be proven to be abiotic) in extraterrestial objects gives us tantalizing clues of the abiotic origin of at least some petroleum.
Frankly, I think this disagreement won’t subside until we actually start mining petroleum from asteroids and other bodies in the solar system - but that won’t be for awhile.
How is oil destroying our nation?
Almost there but... Exxon made $40 billions in a market driven by speculators and the fear of international stability of the oil supply.
Our refusal to drill our own oil gives them this weapon. We could 'disarm' them in a space of a few years if we really wanted to.
The question is, why don't our 'leaders' want to?
If there are pyrites in the coal they should be hung for pyricy! Captain Jack Sparrow lives.
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