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Does anyone on here still believe oil comes from fossils?
Posted on 7/14/10 at 8:33 pm
Posted on 7/14/10 at 8:33 pm
Im just wondering?
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Posted on 7/14/10 at 8:34 pm to lsu480
I guess I do. What does it come from?
Posted on 7/14/10 at 8:38 pm to BamaScoop
sounds like an abiotic oil believer has entered the building. I guess oil is magically made in the earth's core and is constantly replenishing the oil formations throughout the world. This is a crackpot theory that is used to explain why we will never run short on oil supplies.
what utter bullshite
what utter bullshite
Posted on 7/14/10 at 8:42 pm to LSU2001
Here is what I dont understand. They say there are BILLIONS of barrels of oil in this well. To make BILLIONS of barrels of oil it would take BILLIONS of fossils. So how did this many fossils get THIS DEEP???????
This post was edited on 7/14/10 at 8:43 pm
Posted on 7/14/10 at 8:47 pm to LSU2001
Also if it came from fossils there would not be big reserve pockets to pump from...just a very thin line all over the Earth that would be of little use to anyone. Right?
Posted on 7/14/10 at 8:49 pm to lsu480
uh, no. This thread is depressing.
Posted on 7/14/10 at 8:54 pm to BamaScoop
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I guess I do. What does it come from?
Gazillions of tiny little marine organisms that die and fall to the bottom of a shallow anoxic ocean and then get compressed and heated by the layers that fall on top of them.
Posted on 7/14/10 at 8:55 pm to EmperorGout
Dude I just hope you are pulling our leg....better question is where do you think oil comes from?
Posted on 7/14/10 at 8:57 pm to lsu480
Just read the wikipedia entries on hydrocarbons and petroleum and stop listening to your preacher/tea party delegate
Posted on 7/14/10 at 8:58 pm to EmperorGout
Hydrocarbon reserves are formed under tremendous pressures and heat in sedentary rock which is formed primarily from the remains of algae, plankton and dead sea creatures too numerous to mention. As you can clearly see in the rov feeds there is a constant snow of organic material filtering down into the depths as this builds up layer upon layer year after year for eons eventually the organic carbon compounds undergo chemical transition into volatile compounds found in oil, gas, coal etc.
Basically the energy we release from burning "fossil" fuels is the energy that was stored in the organic life forms at the time of their death. what we are really using is ancient sunlight. The idea that fossils of large animals ie dinosaurs, formed these deposits is flat wrong and is often used to try and discredit the biotic origin of hydrocarbons.
Basically the energy we release from burning "fossil" fuels is the energy that was stored in the organic life forms at the time of their death. what we are really using is ancient sunlight. The idea that fossils of large animals ie dinosaurs, formed these deposits is flat wrong and is often used to try and discredit the biotic origin of hydrocarbons.
Posted on 7/14/10 at 9:03 pm to LSU2001
Some people can't help but show their own stupidity.
Posted on 7/14/10 at 9:05 pm to lsu480
Wierd question
Very cool chart!
Very cool chart!
Posted on 7/14/10 at 9:10 pm to tigeryat
also very cool to know that oil is from sea life...I truly never new that.
Posted on 7/14/10 at 9:12 pm to EmperorGout
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Just read the wikipedia entries on hydrocarbons and petroleum and stop listening to your preacher/tea party delegate
WTF are you talking about? I have been thinking about this on my own and realized there is no way that oil can come from fossils.....especially when it is found at those depths buried under all of that rock. Just not possible. It sounds like something the oil companies cooked up to charge more.
Posted on 7/14/10 at 9:12 pm to tigeryat
we all know Dinosaurs never existed
Posted on 7/14/10 at 9:30 pm to Dodd
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WTF are you talking about? I have been thinking about this on my own and realized there is no way that oil can come from fossils.....especially when it is found at those depths buried under all of that rock. Just not possible. It sounds like something the oil companies cooked up to charge more.
would you care to explain why you think that oil can't be biotic and found at the depths they are finding it at? I mean really how do you think the rock got there? and are you really this misinformed?
Posted on 7/14/10 at 9:31 pm to Crawdaddy
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I have been thinking about this on my own and realized there is no way that oil can come from fossils.....especially when it is found at those depths buried under all of that rock.
You cant seriously be this dumb can you? You do realize that the organic life that is the origin of oil is hundreds of millions of years old and has been buried over time, right?
Posted on 7/14/10 at 9:32 pm to lsu480
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WTF are you talking about? I have been thinking about this on my own and realized there is no way that oil can come from fossils.....especially when it is found at those depths buried under all of that rock. Just not possible. It sounds like something the oil companies cooked up to charge more.
You sound like a candidate for a geology course or two. There are such things as burial, regression, transgression, upheaval, etc. Your OP is good for laughs though.
Posted on 7/14/10 at 9:35 pm to lsu480
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Also if it came from fossils there would not be big reserve pockets to pump from...just a very thin line all over the Earth that would be of little use to anyone. Right?
No.
It takes a very long time for it to happen, and it takes certain geologic formations that can contain the oil and prevent the organic intermediates from slipping away during the formulative stages.
You really aren't coming across as some kind of well-informed cynic here dude.
BTW....you keep saying that it is made from fossils. You DO realize that they aren't, in spite of being called "fossil fuels"
There is nothing to make oil FROM after fossilization occurs.
This post was edited on 7/14/10 at 9:42 pm
Posted on 7/14/10 at 9:36 pm to lsu480
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I have been thinking about this on my own...
I think I see your mistake.
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