Petroleum is NOT from fossilized organic material. It is something that the Earth's mantle produces from rocks. There is a nearly infinite source of oil that we have yet to tap into. >Experiments under high temperatures and pressures produced many hydrocarbons—including n-alkanes through C10H22 [this is gasoline]—from iron oxide, calcium carbonate, and water. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenic_petroleum_origin Theoretically we may one day be able to put materials down there, like our garbage, and have it turned into petroleum.
Oil under the """fossil fuel theory""" is a finite resource. Unfortunately for shitlibs, oil isn't a fossil fuel.
Ryder Stewart
>Le Abiotic Oil meme
seems legit
Christian Cook
>every scientist in the world says one thing >some random guy on youtube says opposite >LOL SCIENCE PROVEN WRONG ONCE AGAIN
Sup Forums pls
Christian Rivera
No but America alone has over 200 years of oil (for itself) under it. We should invest in researching better energy until it runs out. We are adopting currently inefficient alternative energy technology prematurely.
Kayden Bell
Biotic oil theory was never really proven. Its main basis is certain biomarkers that are similar to plant biomarkers, as though two molecular shapes can't arise separately.
You've been lied to, and the lie serves (((their))) interests. Everyone must believe that oil is finite for the price to be so high. Oil is the most valuable substance to global civilization. If it were discovered that it is virtually infinite, everyone would be rich instead of just a few.
Owen Scott
Water and cellulose at 200 degrees over 3 hours will result in a stack of hydrocarbons, it's inefficient to produce oil like this but it can be done, there is no peak oil if we're willing to make it.
Logan Richardson
That takes more energy to produce than you would gain by burning it.
Logan Perez
Fuck off retard
Nolan Sanchez
If everyone is rich, then no one is rich. Wealth is a relative measure.
While the economy isn't a zero sum game, Wealth is approaches it. Consider: If everyone had 1 billion dollars, then everyone would have the same purchasing power as if they all had 10 dollar. But if half the people have 10 dollars, while a quarter has 100 dollars, and the last quarter has 1000, now there are "rich" people and "poor" people. Rich people can offer more money to buy a good or service than people with less, allowing them to monopolize products and services offered in small numbers.
Cooper Morales
>he doesn't understand peak cheap oil
kys retard
sage
John Johnson
It's "inefficient" as he said. I guess it still gives you good energy density though. If you need that.
Austin White
Which is why we like to drill it out of the ground. The ground has done much of the energy intensive parts of the process, allowing us to not have to do that, and only add a bit more work to get a final product that is useful to us.
Evan Sullivan
Regardless of the theory though, that doesn't change much.
Nothing is preventing more "fossil fuels" from being created if that were how they are created, as the same mechanisms exist today. Whether it's fossilized organic material or mineral sources, it takes time and pressure that limits the easily accessible amounts.
The fact that they are finite is not how they are created, never was. It's how quickly they are created/replenished.
Oliver Foster
Being rich or poor is more than semantic. And we should assume that buying power has not changed. So those people with $10-$1000 would all be poor, the same way all starving Africans are poor.
Now maybe some people cannot all be wealthy like Trump, because there isn't enough currency to go around. This is true in a world where resources (i.e., petroleum, which drives technology) are finite. Imagine if everyone lived in 10,000 sq ft mansions and had nice cars. That would be theoretically possible if we had cheap, unlimited oil and cheap robots. Would that not be a situation where everyone is rich?
Hunter Evans
If we chucked all americans down there, how much oil could we extract?
Noah Baker
>The fact that they are finite is not how they are created, never was.
It is though. Abiotic oil theory states that the mantle produces oil. If that is the case, then the oil we have drilled so far comprises the part of the mantle's oil that seeped up. Whatever seeped up must be a smaller part of a greater whole. So abiotic oil theory being true means there is a vast sea of oil yet to be accessed.
Jace Bennett
Problem is though that the location of additional reservoirs is tied to the reason people dumped abiogenic petroleum as a theory decades ago.
All the theoretical conditions they posited (leeching up from the mantle, etc.) proved not to correlate to where we actually found oil.
It's only recently, with work in the chem lab (demonstrating oil synthesis from inorganic sources) that we've started looking at the theory again.
So yeah. Abiotic theory could be legit, but the predictive quality just isn't there yet.
