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
I'm an ex peak-oiler of many years so this is of interest to me,
I have heard of abiotic oil before and kept it to the back of my mind.
A couple of things:
You find fossils in coal, but I have never heard of them in oil. This has me leaning toward abiotic oil produced by inorganic processes.
IIRC There are often weird elements in oil too like Vanadium.
Abiotic oil may be renewable. It is still a serious resource issue if we use it faster than it is renewed (which would be my guess) so peak oil worries and EROEI (energy returned on energy invested) calculations are still important.
I wish we weren't being lied to so often. It's tiring.
Son of a coal miner here. Dad used to bring home artifacts of obvious human origin being stuck in coal that came out of the ground. I remember seeing at least 2 of them. (One was a spike-type nail thing, the other was a hook with a barb on it) Heard about one with a sort of hammer.
Either some redneck was having fun making these things or coal doesn’t take as long as people think to form.
Takes 3 to 5 hours to make charcoal. Coal isn't made over long periods of time. Those seams are each from thousands of square miles of forests that were ripped out of the ground and dropped where they washed up against mountains. A 100 foot seam took 1,000 feet of deposited trees...all at once not over time. Then mass is cooked at high temp with out burning because it is encapsulated in sand/soil/clay and depleted of oxygen. Likely a 2 to 3 thousand degree blast. Lots of man made artifacts have been found in coal. Kind of a recurring event.
scoffs... next you'll try telling us that diamonds aren't that rare or special. yeah, right.
oh, wait... dammit.
To add to that, you can make cheaper and better diamonds synthetically too. They also look prettier if you're looking into engagement rings.