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Fossil Fuel is an Oxymoron
Smokin Joe:
--- Quote from: ChemEngrMBA on May 03, 2023, 11:02:34 pm ---https://www.space.com/4968-titan-oil-earth.html
Titan Has More Oil Than Earth
By Space.com Staff
published February 13, 2008
An artist's imagination of hydrocarbon pools, icy and rocky terrain on the surface of Saturn's largest moon Titan.
Saturn's smoggy moon Titan has hundreds of times more natural gas and other liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, scientists said today.
The hydrocarbons rain from the sky on the miserable moon, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes. This much was known. But now the stuff has been quantified using observations from NASA's Cassini spacecraft.
"Titanis just covered in carbon-bearing material — it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," said Ralph Lorenz, a Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. "This vast carbon inventory is an important window into the geology and climate history of Titan."
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No way the pipeline permits will go through... :shrug: **nononono*
bigheadfred:
--- Quote from: Smokin Joe on May 03, 2023, 11:17:22 pm ---No way the pipeline permits will go through... :shrug: **nononono*
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There were dinosaurs on Titan? I wonder if the the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs here also killed the dinosaurs there?
ChemEngrMBA:
Crude Oil and Natural Gas are Renewable
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.
“Using our research we can even say where oil could be found in Sweden,” says Vladimir Kutcherov, a professor at the Division of Energy Technology at KTH.
Together with two research colleagues, Vladimir Kutcherov has simulated the process involving pressure and heat that occurs naturally in the inner layers of the earth, the process that generates hydrocarbon, the primary component in oil and natural gas.
According to Vladimir Kutcherov, the findings are a clear indication that the oil supply is not about to end, which researchers and experts in the field have long feared.
He adds that there is no way that fossil oil, with the help of gravity or other forces, could have seeped down to a depth of 10.5 kilometers in the state of Texas, for example, which is rich in oil deposits. As Vladimir Kutcherov sees it, this is further proof, alongside his own research findings, of the genesis of these energy sources – that they can be created in other ways than via fossils. This has long been a matter of lively discussion among scientists.
“There is no doubt that our research proves that crude oil and natural gas are generated without the involvement of fossils. All types of bedrock can serve as reservoirs of oil,” says Vladimir Kutcherov, who adds that this is true of land areas that have not yet been prospected for these energy sources.
But the discovery has more benefits. The degree of accuracy in finding oil is enhanced dramatically – from 20 to 70 percent. Since drilling for oil and natural gas is a very expensive process, the cost picture will be radically altered for petroleum companies, and in the end probably for consumers as well.
“The savings will be in the many billions,” says Vladimir Kutcherov.
To identify where it is worthwhile to drill for natural gas and oil, Vladimir Kutcherov has used his research to arrive at a new method. It involves dividing the globe into a finely meshed grid. The grid corresponds to fissures, so-called ‘migration channels,’ through underlying layers under the surface of the earth. Wherever these fissures meet, it is suitable to drill.
According to Vladimir Kutcherov, these research findings are extremely important, not least as 61 percent of the world’s energy consumption derives from crude oil and natural gas.
The next step in this research work will involve more experiments, but above all refining the method will make it easier to find places where it is suitable to drill for oil and natural gas.
Vladimir Kutcherov, Anton Kolesnikov, and Alexander Goncharov’s research work was recently published in the scientific journal Nature Geoscience.
HikerGuy83:
--- Quote from: ChemEngrMBA on May 02, 2023, 06:15:24 pm ---Fossil Fuel is an Oxymoron
fos·sil [ˈfäs(ə)l]
NOUN
1. the remains or impression of a prehistoric organism preserved in petrified form or as a mold or cast in rock:
"sites rich in fossils" · "a fossil fish"
Neither crude oil nor natural gas is “in petrified form.” One is a liquid and one is a gas.
The theory of trees, plants and animals dying eons ago and being compressed into crude oil and natural gas, which are all then being covered by miles of strata and/or water is pseudoscience. Bacteria and fungi were some of the first organisms on earth, and consume dead plant and animal matter beginning immediately after they die. Nowhere on earth is there now the slightest hint of large masses of plant or animal matter being compressed into “fossil fuel.”
“How then did crude oil, natural gas, and coal get here and in such amazing abundance?”
I submit that we do not know any naturalistic process. The only thing that makes sense is that Nature’s God, the Brilliant Creator, put all of these things here for us. If there is no plausible “scientific explanation,” don’t fabricate one. That’s not science, it’s desperation.
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Interesting.
This certainly leans into the current narrative.
240B:
@ChemEngrMBA
Many geologists believe that oil has nothing whatsoever to do with plants or animals. Oil is a byproduct of some deep geological process which has not been fully documented yet. In fact, astronomers have posted that they have documented indications that carbon based fuels such as oil exist on other planets.
The 'fossil fuel' moniker was developed by the Luddite anti-progress people in an attempt to make people believe that oil is limited and that it is based on the death of plants and animals. Actually, it is a simple geological process which has nothing to do with any of that. New oil is being created all the time, in the depths of the Earth.
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