Do "Fossil Fuels" actually come from Fossils?

[Muhammed]

Then why are there hydrocarbons on Titan, Corky?

 

[Pete7469]

 

[alang1216]

Do "Fossil Fuels" actually come from Fossils?

Hint: The answer is No

There may be non-fossil sources but I suspect they are rare. Look at peat, bituminous, and anthracite coal and it seems obvious what their sources are.

In our lifetimes, they are non-renewable resources but they will never run out. What will run out are cheap means to extract them. We are in a race between technology (e.g., fracing, slant drilling, etc.) and cost. Eventually it will be too expensive to exploit them and we'll have already moved on.

 

[konradv]

Then why are there hydrocarbons on Titan, Corky?

Simple hydrocarbons like methane, not the complex mixtures found in crude oil.

 

[konradv]

There may be non-fossil sources but I suspect they are rare. Look at peat, bituminous, and anthracite coal and it seems obvious what their sources are.

In our lifetimes, they are non-renewable resources but they will never run out. What will run out are cheap means to extract them. We are in a race between technology (e.g., fracing, slant drilling, etc.) and cost. Eventually it will be too expensive to exploit them and we'll have already moved on.

Hopefully by the time they do run out the fusion power problem will have been solved.

 

[surada]

There may be non-fossil sources but I suspect they are rare. Look at peat, bituminous, and anthracite coal and it seems obvious what their sources are.

In our lifetimes, they are non-renewable resources but they will never run out. What will run out are cheap means to extract them. We are in a race between technology (e.g., fracing, slant drilling, etc.) and cost. Eventually it will be too expensive to exploit them and we'll have already moved on.

Zaki Yamani said, "The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones".

 

[konradv]

Zaki Yamani said, "The stone age didn't end because they ran out of stones".

IMO, when the transistor was invented the Iron Age ended and the Silicon Age began.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Fossil fuel Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

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Fossil fuel definition, any combustible organic material, as oil, coal, or natural gas, derived from the remains of former life. See more.

See? Just like Global Warming! Buying a "scientific" opinion does not make it true

"To prove that abiotic oil is possible, in 2002 Kutcherov superheated calcium carbonate, water and iron in a pressure chamber and then cranked it up to produce 30,000 times atmospheric pressure, simulating the conditions present in the earth's mantle. Sure enough, about 1.5% of the material converted into hydrocarbons, according to results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most of it was methane and other gases, but about 10% was heavier oil components."

Endless Oil?

 

[surada]

See? Just like Global Warming! Buying a "scientific" opinion does not make it true

"To prove that abiotic oil is possible, in 2002 Kutcherov superheated calcium carbonate, water and iron in a pressure chamber and then cranked it up to produce 30,000 times atmospheric pressure, simulating the conditions present in the earth's mantle. Sure enough, about 1.5% of the material converted into hydrocarbons, according to results in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Most of it was methane and other gases, but about 10% was heavier oil components."

Endless Oil?

Fossils that are carbonized or coalified consist of the organic remains which have been reduced primarily to the chemical element carbon. Carbonized fossils consist of a thin film which forms a silhouette of the original organism, and the original organic remains were typically soft tissues.

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Fossils that are carbonized or coalified consist of the organic remains which have been reduced primarily to the chemical element carbon. Carbonized fossils consist of a thin film which forms a silhouette of the original organism, and the original organic remains were typically soft tissues.

^ Titan, no dinosaurs, but apparently lakes of "organic remains"

 

[surada]

CrusaderFrank

OK. explain fossil water.. LOLOL

 

[surada]

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^ Titan, no dinosaurs, but apparently lakes of "organic remains"

So? dinosaurs are certainly not the only source of crude oil.. Is that what you're arguing.. organic material?????

 

[CrusaderFrank]

So? dinosaurs are certainly not the only source of crude oil.. Is that what you're arguing.. organic material?????

I'm not arguing anything, just pointing out that "fossil fuels" on planet Earth have nothing whatsoever to do with dead dinosaurs or long buried Jurassic forests

 

[surada]

I'm not arguing anything, just pointing out that "fossil fuels" on planet Earth have nothing whatsoever to do with dead dinosaurs or long buried Jurassic forests

Do you know what organic matter means?

 

[Oddball]

Simple hydrocarbons like methane, not the complex mixtures found in crude oil.

....that you know about.

 

[elektra]

If oil is a renewable resource as you say, link us to an article where an empty oil well suddenly replenished itself. I’ll wait.

I see someone beat me to this, apparently you are the last one to board the bus

Finding New Oil In Long-exhausted Oil Wells

Oil reappears from time to time in old deposits and long ago exhausted oil wells. Oil sometimes rushes in or sometimes floods back.In the researchers' opinion, to overhaul old oil deposits is currently much more profitable and efficient than expensive geological exploration works at new locations.

www.sciencedaily.com

Are Oil Wells Recharging Themselves? | OilPrice.com

a look at the idea that oil wells can recharge over time. There are two possible methods in which an oil well may recharge; biogenic production, or abiogenic production

oilprice.com

Geochemist Says Oil FieldsMay Be Refilled Naturally (Published 1995)

www.nytimes.com

Earth Is An Oil-Producing Machine — We're Not Running Out

Ever since M. King Hubbert in the 1950s convinced a lot of people with his "peak oil" theory that production would collapse and we'd eventually exhaust our crude supplies, the... Read More

www.investors.com

 

[Old Rocks]

Look at how much coal, oil, and NG we have taken out of the ground since the 1800s. And we keep finding more. Of course, it isn't from fossils of dinosaurs or plant material.

Sinclair still uses a dinosaur in their logo.

No, oil is not from dinosaurs. But coal is from plants.

KY Coal Facts - Coal Origin and Properties

www.coaleducation.org

 

[Old Rocks]

Abiotic oil. Coal, may in fact come from biologic origins, but oil is a very different story.

The Gold hypothesis is simply wrong.

Oil formation - Energy Education

energyeducation.ca

 

[Old Rocks]

Then why are there hydrocarbons on Titan, Corky?

Simple hydrocarbons are not oil or coal.

 

[Old Rocks]

Considering the vast oil reserves that exist, it seems impossible that piles of dinosaur remains created it all.

Seems impossible that anyone with a functioning brain could entertain that notion for more than five seconds.