Re: 'Fossil fuel' theory takes hit with NASA finding

Methane is CH4. One Carbon and Four Hydrogen atoms. It can be produced
biologically, or in any number of chemical reactions. No news here. Oil
and coal on Planet Earth definately come from decaying animal organisms and
plant life. There may, however, be other methods of construction of the
more complex hydracarbon forms of oil, there is simply no shred evidence
whatsoever of them on Planet Earth.

Modern wildcatters must now be the promoters of abiotic oil. If they ever
acquire enough money to drill, their next stop will be the bankruptcy court,
after the depleat their invetsors resources and find nothing but dry holes.
Some people like throwing their money away, some don't.




"Alan" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> New study shows methane on Saturn's moon Titan not biological
>
> © 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
>
> NASA scientists are about to publish conclusive studies showing abundant
> methane
> of a non-biologic nature is found on Saturn's giant moon Titan, a finding
> that
> validates a new book's contention that oil is not a fossil fuel.
>
> "We have determined that Titan's methane is not of biologic origin,"
> reports
> Hasso Niemann of the Goddard Space Flight Center, a principal NASA
> investigator
> responsible for the Gas Chromatograph Mass Spectrometer aboard the
> Cassini-Huygens probe that landed on Titan Jan. 14.
>
> Niemann concludes the methane "must be replenished by geologic processes
> on
> Titan, perhaps venting from a supply in the interior that could have been
> trapped there as the moon formed."
>
> The studies announced by NASA yesterday will be reported in the Dec. 8
> issue of
> the scientific journal Nature.
>
> "This finding confirms one of the key arguments in 'Black Gold
> Stranglehold: The
> Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil,'" claims co-author Jerome R.
> Corsi.
> "We argue that oil and natural gas are abiotic products, not 'fossil
> fuels' that
> are biologically created by the debris of dead dinosaurs and ancient
> forests."
>
> Methane has been synthetically created in the laboratory, Corsi points
> out, "and
> now NASA confirms that abiotic methane is abundantly found on Titan."
>
> The realization that hydrocarbons are produced inorganically throughout
> our
> solar system was a key insight that led Cornell University astronomer
> Thomas
> Gold to write his 1998 book, "The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil
> Fuels."
> Gold wrote:
>
> It would be surprising indeed if the earth had obtained its
> hydrocarbons
> only from a source that biology had taken from another carbon-bearing
> gas -
> carbon dioxide - which would have been collected from the atmosphere by
> photo-synthesizing organisms for manufacture into carbohydrates and then
> somehow
> reworked by geology into hydrocarbons. All this, while the planetary
> bodies
> bereft of surface life would have received their hydrocarbon gifts by
> purely
> abiogenic causes.
>
> Gold wryly noted that he was sure there had not been any "big stagnant
> swamps on
> Titan" to produce the biological debris that conventionally trained
> geologists
> think was required on Earth to produce oil and natural gas as a "fossil
> fuel."
>
> "If petroleum and natural gas are abiotic as we maintain in 'Black Gold
> Stranglehold,'" Corsi commented, "then the 'peak oil' fear that we are
> going to
> run out of oil may have been based on a giant misconception."
>
> Paradigms in science change slowly and with great resistance, he noted,
> "But
> NASA has given us today incontrovertible evidence that Titan has abundant
> inorganic methane."
>
> "If the scientists have ruled out that biological processes created
> methane on
> Titan, why do petro-geologists still argue that natural gas on Earth is of
> biological origin?" Corsi asked.
>
> http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=47675
>
> Hmmmm.... this gets ever more intriguing. We have so many different
> stories to
> choose from. LMAO I wonder which ones are the real conspiracy theories?
>
>
> Alan
>
> http://www.veloceraptor.free-online.co.uk/enigma.html
>
> http://veloceraptor.blogspot.com/
>
> http://www.bushflash.com/pl_lo.html


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