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October 29, 2009
Where Does The Oil Come From?
There is some relatively new sciece out about the origins of oil and natural gas. ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2009) -- Researchers at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm have managed to prove that fossils from animals and plants are not necessary for crude oil and natural gas to be generated. The findings are revolutionary since this means, on the one hand, that it will be much easier to find these sources of energy and, on the other hand, that they can be found all over the globe.Well isn't that interesting. So called fossil fuels may not be from fossils after all. That would tend to confirm the work of Thomas Gold and Freeman Dyson: The Deep Hot Biosphere : The Myth of Fossil Fuels What other findings do we have that might add further confirmation? There is some other work done in Sweden. When Gold proposed this theory in the early 1980s, few scientists took him seriously. However, he did persuade the Swedish State Power Board to drill into a slab of granite fractured by an ancient meteor impact. Since oil is supposed to be found only in sedimentary rocks, it was a good test of Gold's theory. If gas is coming up from deep in the Earth, it might be expected to accumulate beneath the dense granite cap, and migrate slowly up through any fissures, perhaps turning into oil or tar. In the event, the prospectors did strike oil - about 12 tons of it. This was not enough to make the well commercially successful, but it did confirm that Gold was on to something.Ah but that is not all. There seem to be more than a few oil wells in the world that refuse to run dry. Mystery in the GulfPeak oil? I dunno. Maybe not. And then there is the biology of the Gulf of Mexico. We hear a lot about killer oil spills. But what if oil is life? Here is an article about all the oil seeping out of the gulf of Mexico. The discovery of abundant life where scientists expected a deserted seafloor also suggested that the seeps are a long-duration phenomenon. Indeed, the clams are thought to be about 100 years old, and the tube worms may live as long as 600 years, or more, Kennicutt said.Well what do you know. Look for an oil slick, find oil. If you do some searching around on your favorite search engine you can find lots more of this stuff. Which made me think of the Firesign Theater Album: Everything You Know Is Wrong. Peak oil? Probably more like peak hysteria. Well it used to sell newspapers. Today? Not so much. Cross Posted at Power and Control posted by Simon on 10.29.09 at 03:55 PM
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For close to a century now, petroleum geologists have been studying geology with the specific goal of learning what kinds of rock formations are more likely to contain recoverable deposits of petrochemicals. Their methods are now so well-refined that they can tell if a given area is promising or not with a few days and a few scans. All based on the classic theory about petroleum and other petrochemicals: that they are fossil fuels derived from the remains of huge quantities of once-living things. They've even learned how to tell whether oil came from marine or terrestrial sources, and roughly how old it is. And in just a couple of years, these guys come along and prove all that work and all that data is 100% wrong. Riiiiight...... wolfwalker · November 1, 2009 03:22 AM wolfwalker, Plate tectonics. M. Simon · November 1, 2009 12:24 PM Post a comment
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Back in the '70s, I had an Economics professor who, besides being a natural teacher, was an avowed Marxist. One of his more enjoyable lectures addressed the oil industry. His premise was that, at any given point in time, that industry could declare that there was only a 15-year supply of oil left. His explanation was that it took the industry 15 years to locate, drill, pump, transport, refine and deliver their products. There was no economic reason for them to do more and so they didn't.