I imagine some form of Fischer Tropsch process. Water and carbon rocks and CO2 even under enormous heat and pressure and some types of minerals acting as catalysts. Would produce hydrocarbons as that would be more stable form at those high pressure and temperatures. The high pressure temperature energy would be converted and relieve pressure and heat from mantle/crust and turn it into chemical energy. Oil likely also helps crust float and transition more smoothly ie not huge earthquakes but smaller ones. Though I’m not a geologist so not sure on that one, I’m just thinking from purely mechanical viewpoint on how oil works in a machine.
I remember driving my brand new 1995 Saturn and hearing on the radio that by 2000, there would be no oil left and we would not be able to drive our current cars anymore. My heart dropped. I had just bought my first new car. That prediction turned out to be lost by time also.
I've heard this theory of renewable oil before, but although it sounds plausible, I'd like to see more documentation on the mechanisms behind it.
I have seen old TV shows from the Sixties in which the characters kept warning that "by 1980," all the oil in the world would be used up and gone.
Funny how no one seems to remember those failed predictions.
I imagine some form of Fischer Tropsch process. Water and carbon rocks and CO2 even under enormous heat and pressure and some types of minerals acting as catalysts. Would produce hydrocarbons as that would be more stable form at those high pressure and temperatures. The high pressure temperature energy would be converted and relieve pressure and heat from mantle/crust and turn it into chemical energy. Oil likely also helps crust float and transition more smoothly ie not huge earthquakes but smaller ones. Though I’m not a geologist so not sure on that one, I’m just thinking from purely mechanical viewpoint on how oil works in a machine.
I remember driving my brand new 1995 Saturn and hearing on the radio that by 2000, there would be no oil left and we would not be able to drive our current cars anymore. My heart dropped. I had just bought my first new car. That prediction turned out to be lost by time also.