Earth Is An Oil-Producing Machine
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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
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4 Nov 2015 -- By Kerry Jackson
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 clock has been running. And running. And it will continue to run for some time, as technology and new discoveries show that there's still an ocean of oil under our feet.
Engineering and Technology Magazine reported this week that
BP — the company that once wanted to be known as "Beyond Petroleum" rather than "British Petroleum" — is saying "the world is no longer at risk of running out of resources."
"Thanks to investment into supercomputers, robotics and the use of chemicals to extract the maximum from available reservoirs, the accessible oil and gas reserves will almost double by 2050,"
Engineering and Technology said.
A BP official told the magazine that "energy resources are plentiful. Concerns over running out of oil and gas have disappeared."
Things are so good, in fact, that Engineering and Technology says "with the use of the innovative technologies, available fossil fuel resources could increase from the current 2.9 trillion barrels of oil equivalent to 4.8 trillion by 2050, which is almost twice as much as the projected global demand." That number could even reach 7.5 trillion barrels if technology and exploration techniques advance even faster.
This information backs up the idea that Earth is actually an oil-producing machine.
We call energy sources such as crude oil and natural gas fossil fuels based on the assumption that they are the products of decaying organisms, maybe even dinosaurs themselves. But the label is a misnomer. Research from the last decade found that hydrocarbons are synthesized abiotically.
Commentary:
Please note that this article was written in November 2015.
Hydrogen is the common element in the universe. Carbon is the 4th. Oxygen is 23% of earths atmosphere. They each have a ready affinity for each other and combine into chains of different lengths.
We are taught that in basic Organic Chemistry.
It’s ignorant and semi retarded to decide that crude oil and gas can only be formed from dinosaurs.
It seems logical to me the natural production of petroleum and natural as is an on-going process that takes place, maybe at different rates, but continually over time. We find that even our man-made landfills create enough methane gas to be recovered and used.
We're being told that fossil fuels will soon run out. That is a lie and modern science as proven it beyond doubt.