Fossil Fuel, J. D. Rockefeller meme
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Please don't believe every nonsensical thing people tell you.
Yes, abiotic oil is possible in the "weak" sense. But the "strong" abiotic theory is nonsense. No, it can't regenerate faster than it can be depleted.
Geology didn't suddenly change because we started pumping oil. If oil was being created at ludicrous speed, it would have been created at ludicrous speed for millenia. There would be so much oil it would be forced out of rocks in geysers and puddling on the surface of the earth. There would be literal oceans of the stuff. Our ancestors, who had no use for oil, would have been drowning in it.
Think. Use your brain. It's not possible. Yes, the "weak" theory, that it is produced...slowly...by things other than decaying fossil carbon, is a possibility. But the replenishment rate MUST be very, very slow or you can't explain the hundreds of thousands of years prior to when we started pumping. If the Earth is producing 100 million barrels a day, Then over the last 10 million years it will have produced more oil than you could fit in the Pacific Ocean! And the continents (i.e. crust and mantle) have been in their current configuration for a lot longer than that.
Whatever theory you choose to believe, whether abiotic or fossil, we are using oil faster than it can be produced, and very soon it will cease to be a cheap, usable fuel source capable of powering an industrial civilization. Don't let anyone else gaslight you into thinking otherwise.
I know nothing at all about it but let's say God is pretty smart and the earth regenerates it up to a certain point... sort of like how your body generates things up to a point and then stops until it depletes
I'm open to the subject, but your argument is poor. Natural chemical processes are subject to thermodynamic conditions, such as temperature and pressure. It is possible that high pressure can disable a slow process. And that a sudden reduction in pressure (e.g., by extraction of the reaction product from geologic layers) can enable the stalled process to revive and continue. Something can stay corked up for a long time, once all the easy paths have been blocked.
This is similar to lechateliers principle in chemistry, the state may be trying to reach equilibrium again once the oil is removed. Not 100% on the oil theories overall either way but I can understand that line of thinking
Oil was first discovered because it actually was "puddling on the surface of the earth." Nobody ever thought, "Well I think I will spend a fortune digging really deep wells in hopes of finding something that will burn."
Oil is formed to fill the available space. In chemistry, there is a term for that. Look it up.
We are not running out of oil. Period.
You're gonna be downvoted, as am I, but you're 100% correct. Abiogenic oil exists, but not even close to the amount of fossil-derived petroleum. I think folks around here hear 'fossils' and think dinosaurs and trees. We're talking mostly algae and planktons.
Crude oil does not contain the same array of elements as found in algae and planktons. Research it yourself, as I have. Some oil wells are over 4 miles deep in the ground, way lower than any life has ever been.
It does though... Carbon ;) We could all be oil, given enough time. You're barking up the wrong tree with me on this. But I'm not here to change your mind. Keep on, pede!
I'm talking about the minerals, such as phosphorus, calcium, etc. Of course they both contain carbon. Duh.
I'm a bit late to this, has any human or animal ever degraded into oil? The way is observe is eventually our flesh disappears after few years just leaving bones.
So you say given enough time, how much time 100 years...1000...1,000,000?
So your saying a long time after every thing has disappeared into dust we will just turn into an oily soup?
Why don't we find dinosaur fossils in oil? I'm sure they've had enough time in evolutionary theory.
Just asking for a friend, anon.
I wonder if we could invent some enzymes to facilitate the reaction from dirt and water to oil.