Re: Renewable energy alternative

From: G. R. L. Cowan (gcowan_at_eagle.ca)
Date: 07/07/04 

Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:40:19 -0400

"Fred B. McGalliard" wrote:
>
> "G. R. L. Cowan" <gcowan@eagle.ca> wrote in message
> news:40EB23D2.B2099AD1@eagle.ca...
> ...
> > Hard to prove, but easy to substantiate. AFAIK, every petroleum
> > deposit is loaded with biomarkers, e.g. hopanes.
>
> Actually, as I recall, there are some living biological systems in some of
> these wells, aparently not injected from the surface. This is aparently a
> rather new discovery but it would strongly affect what conclusions you can
> draw from finding biomarkers.
>
> > ... If he could have predicted oil on Mars
>
> Well, recall that Mars has very little indication of core heat, so this
> process, even if it works on Earth, may be too marginal to work on Mars. And
> on Venus, the hot sulfuric acid would pretty much wipe out any surface
> markers we might otherwise see. We seem to be stuck with no abiotic oil.
> That is a pretty weak platform since our oil is found, as I recall, in rock
> that has seen the surface and is chock full of biota. Of course that is
> pretty much true of all the thin scum of rock we stand on. Got any good
> places to look?

I am not an abiotic-oil theorist so my estimate
of what abiotic oil theory predicts may be wrong.
But you seem to be saying it doesn't predict oil in Mars or Venus,
and you ask *me* to figure out
where it predicts purely abiotic oil on Earth.

I say it makes no predictions, doesn't dare make any,
because it is a crank theory.

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