Everlasting Oil

Ah, if only it were true... We'd still die of gassing ourselves, but we could at least do it in the warm.

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Grimly Curmudgeon
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Barking mad. Some Russian came up with this idea about 20 years ago. Attention seekers telling people what they'd like to hear. A bit like politicians. And believers in Nuclear power.

Reply to
harryagain

Tell me hary, how does on not believe in nuclear power? Pretend that reactors dont generate electricity?

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Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

If I stop believing in Harry, will he disappear?

Reply to
The Medway Handyman

It doesn't work like that... Like the poor, the feeble minded and criminally inclined are always with us.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

It probably is true. It was known in the 19th century that partly drained wells would return to normal or at least get a top up with the Spring Tides

Not quite. Professor Thomas Gold got the Swedes to drill through granite. They not only found oil but the well got clogged by an iron rich life form.

There is a rumour going around that usable iron resources will be rare in about 50 years. Getting "bacteria" to do our smelting along with the actual mining would seem to be the idea for such a resource the Swedes obviously have.

What you two failures have neglected to consider is that iron is found in coal rich regions UNDER calcium. Try wondering where the calcium came from and how it floats on oil and coal.

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Weatherlawyer

tht doesnt present any problemes. peat gets laid down, gets sand deposited, goes under the sea, gets coral deposited. End of.

I am not saying that geothermel heat cant make hydrocarbons out of hydrogen and carbon are there.

But how does the carbon get there? It's just 'present in the crust' Except that it it isnt.

Carbonates,with oxygen are.

I am sure a test for C14 content of coal oil and gas would ID when the carbon was last in the atmoshere getting its radiation dose from cosmic rays.

I bet it wasnt when the planet was formed ...

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

Geological activity over untold millions of years. Dipshit. Like I'm going to pay any attention to some notion coming from an off-centre wheel such as yourself.

Reply to
Grimly Curmudgeon

I always look at off beat notions just in case they are not instantly dismissable.

There is a little more than most in this one.

But still not a lot.

You only have to smell natural gas to realize its organic in origin, with lots of dead plant flavours in it.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

However, see also:

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RobertL

Only fools believe nuclear is a viable, safe means of electricity production. For the reasons already explained but you are too thick to grasp.

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harryagain

Cite/Link?

What drivel. Their is no free calcium or iron in the Earth's crust.

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harryagain

You dope. The smell of refined natural gas is added so that leaks can be easly detected by their odour. It is illegal to sell odourless gas in the UK and most other countries.

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harryagain

Tried Google?

It is fairly well documented. However, others have pointed out that the oil was quite likely to have been seepage from sedimentary rocks that were removed by later glacial action.

Colin Bignell

Reply to
Nightjar

Golly . How much is the earth charging for it? More than the sun charges for solar energy?

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

you idiot. odourless natural gas doesnt exist naturally.

Just because it has extra pong added doesnt mean it didnt have any to start with.

Reply to
The Natural Philosopher

It contains random (smelly) impurities which are removed by the refining process, then they add the mercaptan at the distribution point. That's why it all smells the same.

Reply to
John Williamson

Not really. Half-life of C14 is about 6000 years according to Wikipedia. The carboniferous period was about 300 million years ago, so that's

50,000 half-lives. So the concentration will have fallen by 2^50000 which is approximately 10^15000. Given that a tonne of pure C14 only contains 4.10^28 atoms of C14, we expect no detectable C14 in coal/oil from the carboniferous period.

How would you tell?

Reply to
Martin Bonner

When I worked at British Gas in the 80s, I chanced upon a crate of "scratch 'n' sniff" cards that were given out in the 60s to let people know what "high speed gas" smelled like ...

Reply to
Jethro_uk

yerrs. After i posted that I went looking and found..what you found.

There probably is at least one way..that no one (including self) has thought of..yet..

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The Natural Philosopher

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