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Originally posted by Starchild23
Um...duh?
Whoever believed fossils made fossil fuel takes things way too literally.
Fossil fuel comes from material created through the fossilization process.
Originally posted by DJW001
Even if the abiogenic theory is correct, who is to say that we are not now consuming petroleum faster than it can be produced?
Second line.
Originally posted by tonycliffs
Originally posted by DJW001
Even if the abiogenic theory is correct, who is to say that we are not now consuming petroleum faster than it can be produced?
Second line.
Which brings us around to the coming Depopulation Wars.
Yes, at seven billion plus people today, we are already consuming everything faster than it can be produced and mined.
At eight to nine billion, we've crossed the line of no return.
There's no argument that the world's population will be depopulated at some point.
Originally posted by IkNOwSTuff
reply to post by tonycliffs
There are enough food and resources, maybe just not enough for the lifestyle me and you take for granted.
Even a country like Malaysia which is considered a developing 3rd world nation wastes over 6 tons of food a day.
It isnt a problem of resources its a problem of distribution and lifestyle
Originally posted by Hellhound604
reply to post by tonycliffs
I am still neutral to the abiotic oil hypothesis, as I have not seen enough proof of it yet, but as always, I try to keep an open mind.
But in the end, even if we never run out of oil, the pollution caused by burning fossil fuels has to be stopped somewhere. We can't continue polluting the earth with oil-pollution and plastic. Sooner or later, we have to stop, and invest in green resources, irrespective of the source.
If oil is really proven to be abiotic, and a sustainable resource, AND we can utilize it better than burning and dumping all the CO2 in the atmosphere or the oceans, then I am all for it.
Originally posted by FissionSurplus
reply to post by tonycliffs
After speaking with my husband, who grew up around oil wells and whose grandfather is one of the founders of a huge oil patch out here, he completely agrees that oil is not fossil fuel. After thinking about it, I also agree that it is probably abiotic in nature.
I just can't see there being that many dinosaurs and plant life that far down in the ground. According to one video I watched, Russia is finding oil at over 40,000 ft down. That's much deeper than the layer at which dinosaur bones are found. The fossil fuel theory makes no sense when you examine it "in depth" (pun fully intended).
Having said all that, at the rate we are consuming it, the Earth cannot produce enough to meet demands. But if it is a chemical process, that begs the question, could it be made synthetically?
The proof of the abiotic concept (originally put forward by astronomers Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold) is that 70 percent of the asteroids (those known as carbonaceous chondrites), orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the Asteroid Belt, are infused with the petroleum-like substance "kerogen" (the same stuff that turns ordinary shale into oil shale) which could not have been formed by biological processes: there were never any dinosaurs or prehistoric plants out there.
Originally posted by isyeye
reply to post by tonycliffs
If oil is created abioticly, why is it that I drive by oil wells that had run dry and abandoned decades ago, and never touched again? If oil was abiotic, wouldn't they reactivate the wells after a while? And even if it is abiotic, with dried up abandoned wells scattered everywhere, it should be obvious that oil couldn't be produced fast enough to meet demand.
Originally posted by Erongaricuaro
And hamburgers are not made from ham either. Who da' thunk it?
The proof of the abiotic concept (originally put forward by astronomers Fred Hoyle and Thomas Gold) is that 70 percent of the asteroids (those known as carbonaceous chondrites), orbiting the Sun between Mars and Jupiter in the Asteroid Belt, are infused with the petroleum-like substance "kerogen" (the same stuff that turns ordinary shale into oil shale) which could not have been formed by biological processes: there were never any dinosaurs or prehistoric plants out there.
Or maybe that's proof there was life on other planets and asteroids. This could be big!
Originally posted by tonycliffs
Originally posted by Starchild23
Um...duh?
Whoever believed fossils made fossil fuel takes things way too literally.
Fossil fuel comes from material created through the fossilization process.
Which is, according to this article, an ongoing, self perpetuating process.
There is NO Peak Oil.
Oil is continually created....on and on and on and on........