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DreamSmoker (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:15 PM Original message |
Earth may have more Crude Oil than we can imagine |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. Regardless, |
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Eddie Haskell (817 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 08:58 AM Response to Reply #1 |
37. Size doesn't matter, if you can't get it up. |
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Deep13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:21 PM Response to Original message |
2. Cool! More carbon to put into the atmosphere! |
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HereSince1628 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
3. Abiogenic oil has long been a topic of peak oil deniers |
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buddysmellgood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
4. We now know how to take biomass and turn it into hydrocarbons |
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RevStPatrick (564 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
5. Or it may have less. |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
6. Not proven as fact. Two big points in the text above: |
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DreamSmoker (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:51 PM Response to Reply #6 |
9. It all theory |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 04:03 PM Response to Reply #9 |
19. What success are the Russians having with "Deep Earth Oil Theory" |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 04:13 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. in practice? none at all |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:31 AM Response to Reply #9 |
33. "Theory" has a real scientific meaning, and it's not what you're making it out to be. |
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arcane1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
7. Even if true, and accessible, it's still finite. |
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Thinking Chimp (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 01:48 PM Response to Original message |
8. ... |
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Warren Stupidity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
10. Abiogenic petroleum, oh that? |
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Garbo 2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:07 PM Response to Original message |
11. Your leap to your conclusions not supported by article. But at least Jerome Corsi agrees with you. |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:25 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Algae deposits - at least, that's the consensus - not the "dead dinosaurs" of popular imagination |
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DreamSmoker (442 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:33 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Planetary moons |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 03:03 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. Maybe because carbon and hydrogen are really common elements? |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 09:22 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. Those moons are really cold and are made up of volatile substances like water and methane. |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:49 AM Response to Reply #13 |
30. Because they are far away from the sun |
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Garbo 2004 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:35 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. Of course geologic time for these processes is another matter, amt, accessibility, etc. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:34 PM Response to Original message |
14. I believe we have more than enough oil and coal in the ground to destroy life as we know it. |
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harmonicon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 10:29 PM Response to Reply #14 |
28. sad, but true n/t. |
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Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 02:41 PM Response to Original message |
16. I don't understand your point at all |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 07:52 AM Response to Reply #16 |
32. It's kind of like finding a billion-barrel field in 1,000-barrel increments . . . |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
18. Here we go again... |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 08:28 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. Along with the water-powered car, the "secret patents' on 100mpg engines |
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Javaman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 09:27 PM Response to Reply #21 |
27. You forgot cold fusion. LOL |
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jberryhill (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:50 AM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Cold fusion has been confirmed by Kirlian photography, you know /nt |
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snot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
22. Don't we screw the environment if we even burn all the oil we already know we have? |
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live love laugh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 09:10 PM Response to Original message |
23. Uh huh. nt |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
24. Abiotic Oil is RW woo-woo based in denying Peak Oil. |
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caraher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
26. The abiogenic theory isn't very likely... |
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Dark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-21-11 10:40 PM Response to Original message |
29. Sigh. |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:24 PM Response to Reply #29 |
36. Exactly. Anyone want to calculate the cost of boring a 10-mile deep oil well? NT |
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Thunderstruck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 08:58 AM Response to Original message |
34. Oh brother... |
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eppur_se_muova (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-22-11 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
35. Unrec for fringe science with an obvious agenda. nt |
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stuntcat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-23-11 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
38. spank me hard in 2040 if I'm wrong about this: |
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