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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (22248)	7/18/2008 12:43:10 AM
From: average joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36917

I wish I had the faith and certainty in petroleum science that Rodent and Hubbert have in the biogenesis of oil. They believe that billions of years of plankton deposition led to our oil deposits which have now been peaked out and depleted. The fact is know one really knows with absolute certainty the origin of oil. "Abiogenesis - The theory that petroleum is derived from biogenic processes is held by the overwhelming majority of petroleum geologists. Abiogenic theorists however, such as the late professor of astronomy Thomas Gold at Cornell University, assert that the source of oil may not be a limited supply of “fossil fuels”, but instead an abiotic process. They theorize that if abiogenic petroleum sources are found to be abundant, Earth would contain vast reserves of untapped petroleum. A February 2008 article on abiogenic low-carbon hydrocarbon production using data from experiments at Lost City (hydrothermal field) reported how the abiotic synthesis of C1 to C4 hydrocarbons (though not petroleum) may occur in the presence of ultramafic rocks, water, and moderate amounts of heat." en.wikipedia.org