‘Peak Oil’ Is a Myth & Waste of Energy

Quote from Random.Capital:

The abiotic process in question is fundamental to evolutionary development. No abiotic, no Darwin.

That it happens is indisputable, as it has been observed and can be replicated. The principle question left is whether it happens on a large enough scale to be meaningful. Time will tell...

EDIT: should clarify that "time will tell" for planet Earth - as the other poster pointed out, it is clear as day that there is a non-biological way of generating hydrocarbons as planets/moons without any evidence of life of any kind are swimming in combustible hydrocarbons.
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This thread is about Peak Oil - not methane - thus I am limiting my abiotic views as they pertain to petroleum.

Most geologists support the biogenic formation of petroleum. I am no geologist, so I will go with the current standard accepted theory.

Richard Heinberg writes an interesting piece on the abiotic/biotic oil debate:
http://www.energybulletin.net/node/2423

My annoyance is at the Cornucopians that think everything is just great. Gee - I wish they would convince the Pentagon that oil is so plentiful - we no longer would need to spend a nickel in the Middle East.
 
Quote from vhehn:

The fact remains that the abiotic theory of petroleum genesis has zero credibility for economically interesting accumulations. 99.9999% of the world's liquid hydrocarbons are produced by maturation of organic matter derived from organisms. To deny this means you have to come up with good explanations for the following observations.

1) The almost universal association of petroleum with sedimentary rocks.

2) The close link between petroleum reservoirs and source rocks as shown by biomarkers (the source rocks contain the same organic markers as the petroleum, essentially chemically fingerprinting the two).

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Nice cut and paste job.
http://peakoil.com/contentid-25.html


The fact remains, 3 planets in our solar system (alone!), evidence hydrocarbons in MASSIVE QUANTITY.

Titan, Saturn, Jupiter.

Those planets are devoid of life, Einstein.

Or are you gonna tell me there "must be" life on those planets, because hydrocarbons are present?!!

Abiotic oil is scientific fact. Heat + pressure + carbon + elements = oil . Proven in the lab and in the feild. Whoopie. Another End of the World groupie.
 
Quote from vhehn:

The geological evidence is utterly against the abiogenic postulate.
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But that won't stop them from believing that the Earth has a creamy nougat center of self perpetuating oil. By the way, did you see that gap fill on the crack spread last night!
 
Regarding the renewed reserves for drained oil fields. Likely drainage from other horizons have made its way into the reservoir.

btw, I make a db for all undeveloped fields world wide. If you only count undeveloped discovered reserves we've got 3.2-3.5 years worth of oil at today's consumpton levels. This does not exclude any projects for profitability.

Most of the U.S. oil is missing from this stat as no one really knows how much oil the U.S. has left. The way U.S. estimates this is decline curve for producing wells. What about the ones that haven't been drilled?
 
Quote from achilles28:

Heat + pressure + carbon + elements = oil . Proven in the lab and in the feild.
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Perhaps, but Heat + pressure + oil = gasoline. So then, why are we not sucking premium unleaded out of the ground?
 
Quote from Random.Capital:

The abiotic process in question is fundamental to evolutionary development. No abiotic, no Darwin.

That it happens is indisputable, as it has been observed and can be replicated. The principle question left is whether it happens on a large enough scale to be meaningful. Time will tell...

EDIT: should clarify that "time will tell" for planet Earth - as the other poster pointed out, it is clear as day that there is a non-biological way of generating hydrocarbons as planets/moons without any evidence of life of any kind are swimming in combustible hydrocarbons.
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Thank you. Seems ET's resident egg-heads can't admit whats staring them in the face.

Yes, hydrocarbons exist on other planets. Imagine that. That's 3 planets from a cursory exploration of perhaps 12, or so. "Rare, fossil fuel"....Yea, okay.
 
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