Posted on 03/07/2015 5:04:56 AM PST by Kaslin
And methane on other planets. I never believed oil was a fossil fuel. I think it’s much more likely that animals went into the tar pics like La Brea, thinking it’s water. Got stuck, died. So when u find oil, asphalt, u find skeletons in it, fossils. I think oil was here from day one like gold etc.
Yeah, what is oil? Carbon and hydrogen right? Carbon is the 4th most abundant element in the universe and hydrogen is number 1. Carbon and hydrogen are everywhere. We don't need living creatures to die to get carbon. We just need a chemical reaction at temperature and pressure to get oil...the earths interior!
You can make your own fuel. Harold Bates made some in England out of chicken manure. L. John Fry made methane from pig manure in South Africa, dealing with a mountain of waste and a huge fly problem at the same time, and getting enough fuel to make electricity and hot water for all his needs at the time.
But methane might not be to your liking. My brother's idea about retrofitting his driver's seat with a funnel probably would not have worked either.
You might prefer to do the research and figure out how to "digest" cellulose fibers back into simpler chemical constituents such as butanol, which is an adequate substitute for gasoline. If you can work out how to make a vehicular fuel out of cornstalks, wheat straw, and switch grass clippings, the world will likely beat a path to your door, or perhaps away from it; one or the other.
These fuel conversions are all initially powered by the sun, but chemical energy can be made more compact than solar energy, so that's why we use chemicals in our gas tanks rather than a big solar mirror on the roof of our cars.
Did anyone else notice that after the senate approved the Keystone Pipeline, the price of gas dropped like a rock? And after Obama vetoed it, the price shot back up? How come no one, and I mean NO ONE in the media or anywhere else is making something out of this — I’m looking at you GOP.
Yep, me too. There are thousands of capped wells in the Southeast that can produce, but were not economically viable at the time they were drilled. Now, many are.
Been telling folks for 40 years that we are sitting on an ocean of oil. Got a lot of looks and called crazy many times.
I question calling oil a fossil fuel
I agree. the earth makes the stuff.
That’s ‘cause the media is dems, and oil is such an icky republican thing.
I was thinking about your brother’s idea. Given my last birthday, my own personal methane might be considered a fossil fuel.
Makes it out of what? (I want you to expand your notion.)
There's a turtle running the Senate the produces something else entirely.
I believe we ran out of oil in 1980.
Good point. Does that mean the earth is entitled to a federal subsidy?
I think it comes from dead plankton fallen to the bottom (black muck) and either lies dormant undiscovered, under former seabeds (Midwest, Mideast) or gravitates through underground passageways to coastal sites.
Otherwise, my bet is that it can be found in most places in the oceans and is being created daily by the sun, growing algae, deep ocean pressure and geothermal heat.
Mostly carbon, I would guess.
The link I provided in post 23 went to a You-tube of a guy making methane from his RV's waste storage tank. That's my brother's idea reified.
But methane isn't compact enough to serve as a vehicular fuel. Sure, you can compress it, but you can compress air for the same purpose too.
I thought they were 42 gallon "barrels".
“Even liberals have to agree that I was right, and they were wrong.”
I saw that mistake too.
They usually just try and change the subject.
But admit they were wrong? Ha! NEVER!
They are talking about barrels. Not gallons.
Despite our expectation for a turnaround, we anticipate significant volatility for an extended period of time and would not be surprised to see oil prices drop further in the next few months as a result of continued oversupply and inadequate storage capacity.
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