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Earth Is An Oil-Producing Machine — We're Not Running Out
Investors Business Daily ^
| 11/04/2015
| KERRY JACKSON
Posted on 11/06/2015 4:46:41 AM PST by expat_panama
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Not too long ago our president was tossing out the old tired mindless fear-mongering about how we only got ten years of proven oil reserves left. What he didn't say was that we've only had a decade of proven reserves for over a hundred years becuase nobody needs to 'prove' reserves that we won't need more than ten years ahead. It all puts a new light on what we mean by the term "renewable resource". Like, solar power is not 'renewable' if we only got 4 billion years of proven solar reserves...
To: expat_panama
I tried to tell people this when it was first theorized maybe over 30 years ago now.
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posted on
11/06/2015 4:49:14 AM PST
by
doghorse
To: expat_panama
Of course Earth is an oil producing machine.
The fundamental problem is that it is also a libtard producing machine as well.
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posted on
11/06/2015 4:51:45 AM PST
by
C210N
(When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is libertye)
To: thackney
The abiotic oil creation theory is rising again.
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posted on
11/06/2015 4:54:10 AM PST
by
Sawdring
To: expat_panama
Meanwhile, Saturn’s moon Titan has hydrocarbons on it.
But oil “only” comes from fossil sources.
/ lol.
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posted on
11/06/2015 4:54:46 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: expat_panama
But we are using it much faster than it is being formed. How long do you think it takes a droplet of oil to migrate to a trap?
To: Darksheare
Methane is different than oil.
To: doghorse
Thomas Gold’s abiogenic oil theory goes back 60 years.
All the ‘smart people’ consider it pseudoscience, some even claiming the idea is Soviet.
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posted on
11/06/2015 4:57:21 AM PST
by
jjotto
("Ya could look it up!")
To: doghorse
People need to checkout abiotic ( abiogenesis) oil theory
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posted on
11/06/2015 4:58:30 AM PST
by
silverleaf
(Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
To: crusty old prospector
Titan doesn’t only have methane.
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posted on
11/06/2015 4:58:37 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
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posted on
11/06/2015 4:58:44 AM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: expat_panama
>> This information backs up the idea that Earth is actually an oil-producing machine.
Makes one wonder if maybe Someone designed it that way!
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posted on
11/06/2015 5:01:44 AM PST
by
Nervous Tick
(There is no "allah" but satan, and mohammed was his demon-possessed tool.)
To: jjotto
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posted on
11/06/2015 5:02:12 AM PST
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: expat_panama; thackney
ping for professional input
you convinced me other wise but the theory keeps cropping up
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posted on
11/06/2015 5:03:52 AM PST
by
bert
((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trumping.)
To: Darksheare
It ain’t earl, that for sure.
To: crusty old prospector
Crusty old Earl, sitting there looking disheveled.
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posted on
11/06/2015 5:07:01 AM PST
by
Darksheare
(Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
To: Darksheare
Titan is an insufficient oxygen environment.
Methane, Ethane are the lowest energy form Carbon and Hydrogen can take without oxygen.
But methane, Ethane are a far cry from the complex hydrocarbons asphaltenes, paraffins, naphthenes, and aromatics found in crude oil.
Not to mention crude oil is only sourced from sedimentary rock, often found in layers of different qualities, each layer topped by a impermeable cap rock.
And Crude oil actually contains microfossils of Plankton and similar organisms that were trapped in the sediment and eventually broke down to make oil.
Just as we can squeeze oil out of algae today, trapped in the sediment, cooked and squeezed for a few million years, oil is formed and trapped in the layers.
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posted on
11/06/2015 5:09:18 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: doghorse
Same here..!
(my dad was a geophysicist)
To: jjotto
Thomas Gold had lots of theories. He liked pushing them forward.
He tried to convince NASA the moon was powdered into such a fine material it would not support men or landing craft. They wasted a lot of money on that as well.
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posted on
11/06/2015 5:14:59 AM PST
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
To: Nervous Tick
makes you also wonder if it wasn’t trillions of years ago....
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