Posted on 03/03/2025 12:16:05 PM PST by george76
That’s only 600 MW. You can buy one GE combustion turbine, have it operational in two years and generate 500 MW.
You should read and decide for yourself.
The abiotic theories suggest oil generated from carbon already part of the earth rather than specifically carbon from once-living creatures.
You may also consider the dystopia some are trying to maneuver us into with planned scarcity and the track record of those people with respect to truth. Even sticking with a conventional theory, available reserves appear to be increasing rather than decreasing with the advance of technology, and painting the element we’re made of as somehow intrinsically evil is the thin thread on which their agenda currently hangs.
I have done geochemistry on total hydrocarbon systems from 6 of 7 continents. Every single one of them had geochem and isotopic signatures of being in contact with the biosphere. EVERY SINGLE ONE tens of thousands of samples. Oil is fossilized sunshine period. No sample anywhere has shown abiotic origin not one. No peer reviewed research has ever been published reviewed and accepted by APPG,SEG,GSA none zero nada.
Liquid hydrocarbons are made from marine algae and plankton that falls into an anoxic basin that is then pushed down by sediment accumulation and gravity to a depth where petrogenesis can occur. The shale oil we are getting in Midland if you core sample it you can see the microfossils still in it silica parts of the plankton that settled out millions of years ago.
I’d like a 15KW one for my house.
I like to leave the lights on, so I think I’ll go for the 20 megawatt version.
Well done. But in the world of oil, folks tend to not want to debate methane on Titan. Rather, the reply to abiotic rage is simply . . . “we don’t care how it is made, or where it came from, we only care about where to find it”.
There is one place you can be very certain you won’t find it.
In a well that went empty. There are about 3 instances of wells seeming to refill. The oil was analyzed and found to have seeped from adjacent well areas, so pumping it was cannibalizing the rest of the field. Note that is 3 of 1000s of capped, empty wells.
No, there never has been any peer reviewed research accepted or presented to AAPG,SEG,GSA to us academic and industry professionals for abiotic origin ever. We would shred it to pieces with geochem and isotopics. Sorry abiotic oil is a myth and always will be. Abiotic methane and hydrogen is totally separate as there is no geochemical means to polymer methane a CH4 into CH2 chains of liquid hydrocarbons. The mantle should be making substantial hydrogen as water bearing sediments subduct into the mantle, if those are also carbonate sediments then you can get CO2 from CaCO3 to CaO thermal decomposition. CO2+H2 at pressure always yields either solid carbon and H20 or CH4 and H2O. Depending on the temp pressure curve. At those temps there is no way to have a polymerization to CH2+CH2+n those will always be broken into C and H2.
Oil companies are making billions, dummy. They discover oil all over the place. You should get your news from places other than liberal media.
I’d explain it to you but I am all out of puppets and crayons.
Sorry, Sunshine, but your information is limited. Typical “studies” pointing to themselves.
Methane is a base compound a low energy Gibbs state. Anytime you have carbon and monoatomic hydrogen together you will always get methane. The methane on Titan and in the atmospheres of Saturn , Uranus and Neptune was formed from the gas nebula that formed the solar system it was not made on Titan. Titan’s gravity pulled it in during its formation.
Where did the carbon and monoatomic hydrogen come from ? The solar nebula and the sun itself is a second generation star formed from the remains of a supernova explosion near by. The fact we have any elements above Iron especially uranium confirms this fact. Methane was one of the base gasses floating around in the nebula, all the gas giants via their gravity pulled in methane, free hydrogen too it is in no way shape or form abiotic proof. You also can get because of low temp in the outer solar system CH2+CH2 to form ethane mainly the simplest C=C bond hydrocarbon. Again it’s due to free monoatomic hydrogen hitting a carbon atom that needs 4 electrons to be stable while floating in near absolute zero temps. In the crust and crust mantle boundary you pressures and temps way WAY to high for CH2 chains to form. In fact every liquid hydrocarbon is formed from longer chains breaking down into smaller chains not up the molecular mass scale. Algae and plankton are triglycerides and lipids of hundreds and thousands of CH2, or C=C bonds the process of making “oil” is the breaking of those chains into C5-C20 lengths for petrol, jet fuel and gasoil(diesel) respectively up the chain lengths.
That’s good rebuttal, but I am sure the industry will not bother with it and prefer . . . we only care where it can be found using 100 yrs of expertise in sedimentary layers and 3D seismic analysis.
So how many years do you have in the Industry? How many master’s and PhD?
Oil is from the biosphere period you can say what your opinion is but the Industry drills where the basins are loaded with fossilized sunshine. And frankly we don’t care what loons think. Please by all means show the class where you have a confirmed sample of any oil anywhere that doesn’t have the geochem and isotopic signatures of being in contact with the biosphere. I’ll gladly send you a lab’s address to.send that sample and will get no less than 5 PhD level geochemistry experts to tear it apart.
Get the sample I’ll do the analyst work pro bono.
Well, I’ll entertain this.
“They discover oil all over the place.”
They don’t discover it where it was discovered and emptied, do they . . .
or are you indeed going to go buy some C&A’ed wells that Schlumberger or Halliburton’s Cap and Abandon divisions dealt with? You should give it a whirl, if you’re so sure they refill. Maybe all such divisions at majors should be closed down!
Every county in the US should have one.
The industry is full of people who have been boots down for 20+ years. If it was going to be found it would have. I have seen granitic reservoirs rare but they exist. Yup the liquids clearly show migration from a shale down dip. It’s clear as day in the geochemistry.
Abiotic oil is a crutch for people who don’t want to accept that there simply is too many humans using resources faster than the planet can replace them and at some point a crash is coming.
The industry has made me a wealthy man I work because I chose too, in furtherance of the science I have enough land, assets, passive income and wealth my grand kids will never work. Generational money at this point. So I could care less what the Industry does, they however are very good at finding those organic basins and total hydrocarbon systems. We as an industry ha pretty much mapped the whole planet except for where it’s either prohibited. Antarctica or very remote like the Arctic.
People grasp as abiotic oil to justify to themselves and others the continued burning to the sky of 300+ million years worth of fossil sunshine at rates the planet can never replace it is that simple and not really worth debate given that the actual scientists who’s job it is to do that science have shredded the theory every single time. That’s how science works. Like I said anyone anywhere bring a sample of abiotic liquid hydrocarbons and I’ll have my LCC and four other lab’s test it independently and we will tear it apart before releasing it to all the society groups to do the same.
Thorium reactors don’t have this as a huge problem.
4th generation reactors can even use waste fuel.
What do you think of the late Dr Thomas Gold’s book “The Hot Deep Biosphere”?
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Abiotic oil is a crutch for people who don’t want to accept that there simply is too many humans using resources faster than the planet can replace them and at some point a crash is coming.
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My observation is the concept of scarcity runs into politics from 2 directions.
First direction . . . the left . . . goes like this “Your bullshit about oil being scarce is so you can persuade the world you need to rape Mother Gaia further by endless drilling when you don’t need to. We can just embrace restraint and use less”
Then from the right . . . “Your bullshit about oil being scarce is to hide the reality that left wing green garbage is obstructing us from places where we can find it, and besides which, God would never impose on us a problem that we could not solve. So stop telling me people have to die”
The preppers of the world prepare to survive a few weeks until the lights come back on.
No one prepares for no more oil. No one ever thinks they need a solution for grocery store shelves that go empty and stay that way because tractors could not plant and trucks could not haul to the shelves.
Not gonna be pretty.
You could resistance heat your whole ‘hood...
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