The scam of the oil industry
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How many millions of years did it take for the carbon matter that is converted to oil to submerge through sedimentation and subduction to depths with sufficient pressure to create oil?
How many times has the earth turned over and buried enough carbon in the 4 billions years?
Those things are finite and so is the supply. I worked forty plus years in the industry, and I've seen many reserviors depleted of profitable volumes of oil and gas. You can go back into those reservoirs decades later and still the pressure cap is gone, and the oil volumes low. Sometimes the price of oil and make marginal reservoirs profitable again, but by an large the new production in new reservoirs is the product of technoligical advances in horizontal drilling and fracking. Many of these 'new' reserviors have been known for years, but were not feasible to produce without the new technologies.
Do you understand why the cabal has attacked fracking in the US as an environmental hazard? They know the technology opens up those tight reservoirs and can for a time make America oil independent.
Make no mistake one day humanity will have to find an alternative to oil and gas, or go back into the stone age. I don't see anything on the horizon that will be that replacement and still feed, cloth, and house eight billion people.
Great reply. You understand.
The only thing you have to realize is that humanity has already found an alternative to oil and gas. We aren't ready for it yet, but will be within a decade or two.
Cold fusion reactors have always been a dream of science. However, there are no materials on earth that can generate cold fusion at temperatures low enough to be contained and safely used to generate electricity.
However, Helium-3, which is found in moon dust and can be found in some concentrated deposits capable of being refined on the lunar surface, can be brought back to earth and used in cold-fusion reactions at controllable temperatures with typical steam turbine generators. Helium-3 will one day be used to generate environmentally clean electricity for our planet. The problem is that there is obviously not an environmentally "clean" way to get to the lunar surface and mine it yet, even if a remote processing plant was utilized on the lunar surface and the system were completely automated. The logistics have been worked out, but we aren't there yet.
I've been wondering something. Why aren't coal and oil/ gas found in a continuum?
It seems to me that coal and oil should never be found separately.
It's clear that coal is a fossil fuel, AFAIK, it's literally full of fossils, Oil and gas though. Could they just be rock oil after all?
Coal, gas, and oil are not exclusive to individual formations. There are coal bed methane wells all across norther New Mexico, and there are coal bed gas wells all over Wyoming. The coal bed wells in norther New Mexico also produce a light crude or or in some cases condensate (raw liquid gasoline).
I believe it is the condition under which the reservoirs were formed that determine if coal is the end product or oil is the end product. Gas is produced in both processes.
I want to look into the whole subject in more detail to see if abiotic oil can be excluded or what proportion it makes. I was a peak oiler for many years, reading The Oil Drum and other sites. After all that, I still don't know what is true and what isn't when it comes to reserves.
We were supposed to have had "peak oil" back in the 70s, but here we are almost 50 years later still pumping enough for everything in the world to keep running, with no real end in sight.
Crude oil is all provably abiotic, not dead dinosaurs or ferns. The composition is too different.
https://wikimid2.aapg.org/Kerogen
oil and gas do occur in a continuum. but gas may be derived from terrestrial sources that are not oil prone such as coal.
Correct. I also worked in oil and gas. You don’t drill 11km deep for oil in the gulf of Mexico if you don’t have to.
See my other comment as to the fact that oil is absolutely not compressed dinosaurs or ferns formed over "millions of years." Oil is being produced deep in the earth right this minute.
BTW, there's always biodiesel.
You are likely right. It wasn't compressed dinosaurs or ferns. In all likelhood it was sequestered algie in sand and rock formations. It took millions upon millions of years to subsume and convert into oil.
Biodiesel is a good way for individuals to go to supplement their fuel. If you have to do much traveling it won't be an alternative, and it won't be available in the millions of barrels the world uses every day.
It's not algae either. Look at the elements in oil and in algae, and you'll see that they don't match. Elements don't just appear and disappear outside of a nuclear reaction.
Biodiesel will be available in the quantities we use. There's not millions of barrels right now, because there are very few vehicles that can use it.
BTW, the diesel engine was originally designed to use anything flammable that would go through the pipes.
I don't know where you get your knowledge, but oil is carbon and hydrogen and so is almost every living thing including algae.