I'll go back through my reading history and see if I can find something useful. The problem with nucleation theory is that it is a synthesis of several different things including physical chemistry, physics, astrophysics, geology, etc. and it is hard to find one overall discussion that covers all of the ground. All of the papers I've read tend to focus on only one aspect of what would have to be combined/synthesized with the others to describe what I've been calling "nucleation theory" when I should have been saying there is growing discussion of the topic, but no published scientific papers that bring it all together to form one coherent theory. And yet... the more I look into the pieces of the puzzle, the more intrigued I am that the pieces POSSIBLY do indeed create a completed puzzle rather than some random shape/picture. I may have to post a series of links.
Let me stress that this intrigues me and I have an open mind about it -- I've seen nothing so far that says it is impossible, but neither have I seen anything that proves current fossil fuel theory is 100% right or wrong -- it is a theory still -- the theory with the vast preponderance of evidence to back it up, but I like to keep an open mind in such things until proof is demonstrated.
Of course, if anyone ever makes cold fusion a reality, petroleum will end up being simple feedstock for advanced polymers, plastics and pharmaceuticals. There's just so much we don't know and the possibilities fascinate me.
However, when it comes to investing my hard earned/saved money, I'm going with fossil fuel -- the rest is just a hobby. |
