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Scientist stirs the cauldron: oil, he says, is renewable
Boston Globe
| May 22, 2001
| David L. Chandler
Posted on 11/19/2001 10:07:24 AM PST by Aurelius
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To: EricOKC
Actually Dog Gone is dead on. Many fields that took hundreds of millions of years to form are now depleted, this is fact. Not all of the fields are depleted, as is obvious by the fact that we are still making gasoline, but some have definitely being depleted.
Given another hundred million years, those fields may regenerate, but so what.
To: spycatcher
See what?
To: Aurelius
Unless oil is being created at the rate of millions of barrels a day (I think the US alone goes through 12 mil a day) then its really a moot point.
To: Ben Ficklin
Thomas Gold developed the Steady State Theory with Hoyle and Bondi
To: spycatcher
I don't know anything about Russian or central Asian geology, but when you hit basement rocks in America they certainly don't produce hydrocarbons.
I've been involved in drilling wells that were nearly 5 miles deep and I can assure you that they don't get better the deeper you go.
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11/19/2001 11:15:14 AM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: The Truth Will Make You Free
Rather than adjusting facts to support the theory, he changes the theory to support the facts.
Well said!
To: HopeSprings
Gold is the P. T. Barnum of the oil industry. Same old stuff that he's being touting for years. Don't believe it.Proof?
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11/19/2001 11:16:51 AM PST
by
JoeSchem
To: EricOKC
According to one source, at its largest, great Salt Lake had an area of 6,200 sq km or 6.2 billion sq m. At a uniform depth of 1/2 ft., if I haven't made a mistake, that would be a volume of 1.88 trillion liters.
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11/19/2001 11:22:29 AM PST
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Aurelius
To: Double Tap
The post above the post that says "see above"
The Russians are milking basement rock like crazy and it's helped to drive oil prices down to their current levels.
To: FairWitness
"It's life Jim, but not as we know it"! Maybe oil is a byproduct of Hortas.
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To: The Truth Will Make You Free
Rather than adjusting facts to support the theory, he changes the theory to support the facts. The search for truth is not achieved by replacing incorrect theories with correct ones; it's done by replacing incorrect theories with new ones that are more subtly wrong.
To: EricOKC
To: CubicleGuy
Theories shouldn't be judged in a two-valued system of "correct" and "incorrect", but on a continuous, opened-ended scale proceeding from worse to better. The "complete, perfect theory" being an unattainable end. And maybe a one-dimensional scale is inadequate.
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11/19/2001 11:37:02 AM PST
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Aurelius
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To: Aurelius
Thomas Gold Is it possible that he and Sagan had the same high-grade source?
To: RightWhale
Source of what? I assume you are referring to Carl Sagan?
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posted on
11/19/2001 11:49:20 AM PST
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Aurelius
To: Aurelius
There's no article link?
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11/19/2001 11:51:05 AM PST
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JoeSchem
To: ChemistCat
If oil comes from dead and decayed living organisims, where did they get their carbon mass? Isn't a lot of wasted/spilled oil consumed by microorganisms? Why couldn't they make it? Plants make oil, people and animals make oil, why not bacteria?
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11/19/2001 11:55:05 AM PST
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Leisler
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