Some of you know this, many do not. Most of the sheep have no clue. Even people in the oil industry have no idea of the ACTUAL science on this topic.
We all grew up believing that oil is a fossil fuel, and just about every day this ‘fact’ is mentioned in newspapers and on TV. However, let us not forget what Lenin said – “A lie told often enough becomes truth.”
The great French chemist Marcellin Berthelot particularly scorned the hypothesis of a biological origin for petroleum. Berthelot first carried out experiments involving, among others, a series of what are now referred to as Kolbe reactions and demonstrated the generation of petroleum by dissolving steel in strong acid. He produced the suite of n-alkanes and made it plain that such were generated in total absence of any “biological” molecule or process. Berthelot’s investigations were later extended and refined by other scientists, including Biasson and Sokolov, all of whom observed similar phenomena and likewise concluded that petroleum was unconnected to biological matter.
In 1951, the modern Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum origins was first enunciated by Nikolai A. Kudryavtsev at the All-Union petroleum geology congress. Kudryavtsev analyzed the hypothesis of a biological origin of petroleum, and pointed out the failures of the claims then commonly put forth to support that hypothesis.
scientists and engineers found that oil is not a ‘fossil fuel’ but is a natural product of planet Earth – the high-temperature, high-pressure continuous reaction between calcium carbonate and iron oxide – two of the most abundant compounds making up the Earth’s crust.
A team consisting of Russian scientists and Dr J. F. Kenney, of Gas Resources Corporation, Houston, USA, have actually built a reactor vessel and proven that oil is produced from calcium carbonate and iron oxide
Needless to say, the last people to tell us the truth about oil will be the oil producers and oil companies, for they of course have a vested interest in perpetuating the myth that oil is a fossil fuel and that it will soon be exhausted, in order to ratchet up the price for as long as they can. And don’t look to the Russians to enlighten the world with the truth about oil either, for they are surely laughing now that the oil price is approaching $US150 a barrel.
https://origeminorganicadopetroleo.blogspot.com/2011/10/russian-ukrainian-theory-of-deep.html
JUST WOW!
I have been a petroleum geologist for over 20 years. My first reaction was to denigrate you all, but I won't. Thanks for the laugh though. Here is a link to a classification system of kerogen (hydrocarbon source) and catagenesis (conversion process).
https://wiki.aapg.org/Kerogen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catagenesis_(geology)
Spoiler alert oil comes mostly from algae and other organic materials deposited many moons ago. You could argue it is a renewable resource as Exxon & others have been researching ways to farm algae for oil production, but replacement volumes have not been achieved.
Methane on Mars. ultramafic silicates—rocks rich in iron or magnesium, such as olivine and pyroxene—can react to produce hydrogen in a process commonly referred to as serpentinization. In turn, reaction of hydrogen with carbon grains, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide or carbonaceous minerals can produce methane.
The keys to this process are hydrogen, carbon, metals (which act as catalysts), and heat and pressure. All are available on Mars, too. The process of serpentinization can occur either at high temperatures (350 to 400 degrees C) or at milder ones (30 to 90 degrees C). These lower temperatures are estimated to occur within purported aquifers on Mars.
Although low-temperature serpentinization may be capable of producing the Martian methane, biology remains a serious possibility. On Earth, microorganisms known as methanogens produce methane as a by-product of consuming hydrogen, carbon dioxide or carbon monoxide. If such organisms lived on Mars, they would find a ready supply of nutrients: hydrogen (either produced in the serpentinization process or diffusing into the soil from the atmosphere) plus carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide