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

To: average joe who wrote (22249)	7/18/2008 12:51:30 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

In about 1981 I developed my theory of Earth as an oil and methane production system when I noticed the correlation of ophiolites and oil deposits. Simply, biological material sinks to the ocean floor, is turned into kilometres of sediment as it is carted along to the subduction zone where most of it is plunged down into the super high pressure cooker where the low density hydrocarbons separate and float up into sedimentary layers and to power volcanoes. The volcanic fuel is recycled and much of the rest is recycled too unless it meets a sedimentary trap. In situ formation of oil from sedimentary layers seems more problematic. For example, the sheer quantity of oil in some places such as Saudi Arabia is hard to explain by a lot of fish getting buried in sediment in situ. Mqurice

To: average joe who wrote (22249)	7/18/2008 8:30:17 AM
From: Triffin	Respond to of 36917

ponokee and Maurice .. the source of oil may not be a limited supply of “fossil fuels”, but instead an abiotic process Not abiotic oil again .. Come on do some math !! 1)What's the rate of abiotic production ?? 2)How long has the planet been producing abiotic oil at your assumed rate ?? We're currently extracting crude and condensates @ ~ 74 million barrels per day .. ( all liquids brings us to 85 million barrels per day, but includes non crude sources ) .. There is no mechanism for abiotic oil production that could possible be 'creating' crude oil reserves at any rate that would positively mitigate our rate of extraction .. We'd be knee deep in the stuff if it could !! PO is not about running out of oil .. It's about demand exceeding the maximum rate of extraction .. Triff ..