What you say? Dinosaurs?
DESTROY ALL MONSTERS!!!!!!!!!!
Be Seeing You,
Chris
Posted on 11/29/2005 3:26:34 AM PST by ovrtaxt
What you say? Dinosaurs?
Be Seeing You,
Chris
How is critically important.
Without an answer to HOW? we are running around like blind men dependant on mystics and witchcraft. Science was invented to find the answer to HOW?.
I have read one theory that the natural gas and oil deposits found around the world are not from biological processes, but from methane trapped from the beginning of the earth. Extremely High pressures and heat convert the trapped methane to the natural gas and oil, depending on the conditions. The theory was developed because the ones who developed it said that the amount of plants and animals alive on the earth at any given time could not have been enough mass to produce the amounts of oil and natural gas we have today. Also, they said that if the biological processes were to completely explain the presence of today's deposits, various deposits would be in different stages of development and more concentrated in known strata of known time frames. Coal, on the other hand, is from buried and concentrated plant and animal materials, because it's relatively shallow depths and known fossils found in its presence. But like I said, it's just a theory........
Regardless where the oil comes from, we are using it faster than it's being made. The Texas oil patch is almost exhausted. The oil doesn't seem to be replenishing itself there.
Marine Phytoplankton produce more than 50 billion tons of organic matter a year.
Consider there's been marine Phytoplankton on earth for hundreds of millions of years, that's easily enough to produce all the oil ever found (actually, the vast majority of oil that's ever been formed has been destroyed, because it's seeped to the surface and formed tar, etc...you need a capping formation to prevent this. The oil we do have is a fraction of all that ever made.)
Are their any places on earth that have natural gas coming directly from the ground without and wells, like a water spring? It seems to me that the "political" distribution of oil and gas deposits around the world seems to point to someone with a great sense of ironic humor...........
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I've read about this also.
"tectonic plates" That is the subduction theory. Tectonic plates diving under one another creating the Pacific rim and doing things like crashing into land masses creating things like the Himalayas for instance. As the subcontinent of India did millions of years ago. Wherever two plates adjoin, we find volcanic activity. You might be right about the dinosaurs, but further exploration into the theory postulated in the article above will prove most interesting.
1.6 million PSI; quite impressive.
Try the Fairfax District in L.A where shopkeepers are plagued by methane seepage, or, more dramatically, go to Signal Hill just down the coast a bit and watch the flameoff towers burn night and day.
The old Manley fields that L.A. was forced to buy are a constant source of seepage...
CnH2n+2 for our purposes.
Can't they cap it and use it for something useful? The HORRORS of all that green-house emissions slowly killing us all with global warming and all..........
Often science ignores the bare facts in favor of an agenda.
It actually makes more sense than the "fossil-fuels" theory, going by the fact that dead plants and animals tend to decay ABOVEGROUND, if not buried somehow or located in a cave or other underground habitat. Their remains become part of the soil and other plants and animals.
That is an indisputable fact, and that kind of behavior goes back to the time of Galileo and further.
That said, science is kind of like democracy, it's messy, but it's the best answer available.
Reservoir Management has never, ever been an exact science. To claim that we know exactly how much oil can be produced from a field shows little knowledge of history or oil field production.
Yes, in the long run, that is true. There is no warfare between science and religion unless one side or the other declares it. They are two different approaches.
Wow - I remember being in second grade too on Nov. 22, 1963. I guess we're both old!
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