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To: CapitalistHogg™ who wrote (70597)9/7/2006 12:52:27 PM
From: jim black  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 206179
 
A stellar gas giant like Jupiter and Saturn are made up internally of hydrogen along with other gases, some methane for example. When pressure and temperature are high enough the hydrogen begins nuclear reaction to helium like the H-bomb equivalent of sun's engine. If we refer to our gas reserves here on earth we refer to methane and other molecules with more carbon molecules with hydrogen, e.g., ethane (2-Cs), propane (3-Cs), butane (4-Cs) and higher. Hope this helps, old memories of astronomy days, and of course college physics.
jim black of austin



To: CapitalistHogg™ who wrote (70597)9/7/2006 1:34:21 PM
From: DaveAu  Respond to of 206179
 
"Question: If oil and its gas constituents are all biotic in nature then how would one explain a gas giant in our own solar system? Uranus and Neptune are thought to be composed of water, ammonia and methane."

Methane from Uranus ? Try beano.


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