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Oil is NOT a Fossil Fuel, and CO2 is an Innocent Victim of Green Hysteria by Peter J Morgan
We all grew up believing that oil is a fossil fuel, and just about every day this ‘fact’ is mentioned in newspapers and on TV, often when quoting supposedly learned scientists who should know better. However, let us not forget what Lenin said — “A lie told often enough becomes truth.” Soon after the end of World War II, the Soviet dictator, Stalin, realised that the then Soviet Union needed its own substantial oil reserves and production system if it was ever again called upon to defend itself against an attacker such as Hitler’s Germany.
In 1947, the Soviet Union had, as its petroleum ‘experts’ then estimated, very limited petroleum reserves. Stalin’s response was to set up a task force of top scientists and engineers in a project similar to the Manhattan Project – the top-secret US program to develop the atom bomb during WWII — and initially under the same secrecy, and charged them with the task of finding out what oil was, where it came from and how to find, recover and efficiently refine it.
In 1951, the modern Russian-Ukrainian theory of deep, abiotic petroleum origins was first enunciated by Nikolai A. Kudryavtsev at the All-Union petroleum geology congress. Kudryavtsev analysed the hypothesis of a biological origin of petroleum, and pointed out the failures of the claims commonly put forward to support that hypothesis. Stalin’s team of scientists and engineers found that oil is not a ‘fossil fuel’ but is a natural product of planet earth — the high-temperature, high-pressure continuous reaction between calcium carbonate and iron oxide — two of the most abundant compounds making up the earth’s crust.
A team consisting of Russian scientists and Dr J. F. Kenney, of Gas Resources Corporation, Houston, USA, have actually built a reactor vessel and proven that oil is produced from calcium carbonate and iron oxide, as detailed on the Gas Resources website www.gasresources.net/AlkaneGenesis.htm
Further, they wrote a paper which was published in 2002 in the prestigious Proceedings of the United States National Academy of Science (PNAS), where they proved that for the alkanes comprising petroleum, except for methane, to be formed from biological matter would be in contravention of the Second Law of Thermodynamics. (Also see Generation of methane in the Earth’s mantle: In situ high pressure–temperature measurements of carbonate reduction).
A US Public Service Radio interview with Dr Kenney may be heard on the Gas Resources website at www.gasresources.net/Kenney-NPR.mp3 Russian and Ukrainian scientists found that a continuous reaction occurs naturally at a depth of approximately 100 km at a pressure of approximately 50,000 atmospheres (5 GPa) and a temperature of approximately 1500°C, and will continue more or less until the ‘death’ of planet earth in millions of years’ time. The high pressure causes oil to continuously seep up along fissures in the earth’s crust into subterranean caverns, which we call oil fields.
Oil is still being produced in great abundance by this natural process. Oil is thus a sustainable resource — by the same definition that makes geothermal energy a sustainable resource. With this knowledge, Russian and Ukrainian scientists developed geotechnical science to better predict where to drill for oil. This explains why Russia is today one of the world’s major oil and gas producers and exporters.
Some may ask “How come all of this isn’t public knowledge?” For part of the answer, you are invited to read an excellent article entitled “Cognitive Processes and the Suppression of Sound Scientific Ideas”, by J. Sacherman (1997). More of the answer was provided long ago by Russian writer (War and Peace) and philosopher Leo Tolstoi when he wrote:
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
Some may say “Well, even if oil is a renewable resource, mankind should not burn it because the CO2 so produced causes global warming.” My answer to that is that the idea that mankind’s production of CO2 causes global warming is merely a hypothesis, and this has been proven to be simply not true, many times and by many different scientists, yet still the believers hang on doggedly with what amounts to religious zeal, displaying cognitive dissonance, as described by both Sacherman and Tolstoi, as mentioned above.
Physics tells us that the amount of CO2 already in the atmosphere is absorbing all the infrared radiation that it is possible for CO2 to absorb, and adding more CO2 won’t make the slightest bit of difference. (See The Lynching of Carbon Dioxide — The Innocent Source of Life and The Great Global Warming Hoax?)
The current US energy strategy, driven by the erroneous beliefs that oil is a fossil fuel and that its supply will soon be exhausted, is illogical. Given the fact that oil is produced naturally, likely at rates far in excess of what mankind could ever conceivably consume, it makes absolutely no sense for any nation to buy it at exorbitant prices from foreign sources if it is cheaper to find, drill for and pump its own — and that is precisely what the US should be doing immediately, and so should Australia and New Zealand.
If the US switched from being a net consumer in the world oil market to becoming a net supplier, the price of oil would plunge, perhaps to around $US30 per barrel, with the result that the world’s economies would boom as never before. Most importantly, people would have confidence to invest in their futures, safe in the knowledge that oil would never run out.
A bonus would be that all subsidies to producers of alternative fuels and energy supplies could be removed, with the result that such production would occur only if it was economically viable, which would mean that most such producers would either cease, or greatly scale down, their businesses.
All development of wind farms would cease forthwith as, apart from being unsightly blots on so many landscapes, they are so hopelessly uneconomic and wind is such an unreliable energy source. Our electricity producers can now burn as much coal and oil (with scrubbers in the smokestacks) as needed to produce all the electricity we can afford to purchase, and each of us in our own small way can now burn as much petroleum product as we can afford to put in our cars and boats, safe in the knowledge that (a) oil is never going to run out and (b) all the extra carbon dioxide so produced will not cause global warming, but will green our planet earth and help plants, and hence food, to grow faster, thus helping to feed the billions! And we can stop clearing virgin rainforests to make way for palm oil plantations, leaving orangutans’ habitats pristine.
Please feel free to contact your local political representative and urge him or her to repeal the Emissions Trading Scheme legislation, put a stop to the lunacy of trying to reduce mankind’s carbon dioxide ‘emissions’ and put a stop to talking about oil as a ‘fossil fuel’. Let us not forget that whatever happens on planet earth in a physical sense must do so in accordance with the laws of physics.
The sooner people wake up to the non-science of ‘global warming’ and ‘oil is a fossil fuel’ and ‘burning coal and oil is an environmental sin’, the better off we and our children and our children’s children (etc.) will be. Then, real environmentalists can get back to focusing on reducing the terrible chemical pollution that is happening all over the world.
I leave you to ponder another quote from Leo Tolstoi:
The one thing that is necessary, in life as in art, is to tell the truth.
Peter J. Morgan can be contacted at forensic.eng@xtra.co.nz
Peter J. Morgan B.E. (Mech.), Dip. Teaching
This article was first published by BrookesNews.com on 31st August 2009
September 9th, 2009 at 3:36 am
Wow! … reading this has really opened my eyes to yet another potential massive deception by the mass media and governments of the world. Hmmm, wonder why we have been led to believe oil is produced the way we have all be told, money wouldn’t be a reason would it!?!
For an average person like me, finding things like this really does make me realise how much of a messed up world we live in.
Just wish I could make sense of a lot of the big scientific words used in these articles, heh!
Thx
The WeeWelshman
September 9th, 2009 at 5:34 am
Thanks WeeWelshman. There is a theory that at least some oil is ‘abiogenic’ or ‘abiotic’ rather than fossil in origin. Most of us remain sceptical of such claims, which seem to be backed by anecdotal evidence at best.
However, an article published in Science on 1st February 2008 entitled, ‘Abiogenic Hydrocarbon Production at Lost City Hydrothermal Field’ states in the Abstract that, ” Our findings illustrate that the abiotic synthesis of hydrocarbons in nature may occur in the presence of ultramafic rocks, water, and moderate amounts of heat.”
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/319/5863/604
So, there is now evidence of a mechanism for the abiotic synthesis of hydrocarbons. This is not to say that significant amounts of oil are abiotic in origin, but it is interesting nevertheless.
There is also this about hydrocarbons on Saturn’s moon Titan:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/02/14/2162556.htm
Saturn moon awash with oil
Saturn moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, scientists report.
But this massive reserve is at least 1.2 billion kilometres away from us, on a tiny inhospitable world where on a warm day it’s minus 179°C.
Researchers from the European Space Agency (ESA), report their findings about Saturn’s orange moon in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.
Their results suggest that methane and ethane fall like rain from the sky, forming massive lakes and seas.
And complex organic molecules called tholins are believed to make up Titan’s oily dunes.
“Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material. It’s a giant factory of organic chemicals,” says scientist Dr Ralph Lorenz, Johns Hopkins University.
Lorenz is a member of a team poring over radar data sent back by the US space probe Cassini, which dispatched a European probe, Huygens, to the moon’s surface.
Understanding Titan’s carbon-chemistry cookbook may unlock knowledge as to how Earth’s carbon-based life began, the researchers hope.
September 11th, 2009 at 2:21 am
Interesting theory. The concept that a part of the hydrocarbon on this planet may be abiotic isn’t news, and the Russians demonstrated that it CAN be abiotic. However, the problem with such a theory lies in the fact that the CO2 in the atmosphere has measurably declined from an estimated 3000 ppm in the Triassic to the current 300 ppm. Biotic hydrocarbon production explains this drop in atmospheric CO2. Abiotic doesn’t. Several teratons of carbon don’t just dissapear. Where did it go? When that is answered, then I will take the abiotic theory seriously. Until then, there’s a hole in this theory that undermines its credibility.
September 11th, 2009 at 2:25 am
Mention of this at Lubos Motl’s site: http://motls.blogspot.com/
September 13th, 2009 at 3:54 am
Ben, the answer to your question is in the answer to the question: Where does Calcium Carbonate — the “ingredient” that it is proposed gets “transformed” along with H2O into OIL — come from?
The answer is found in the Earth’s oceans. Step one is that CO2 dissolves in the water. Step 2, it is absorbed by everything from krill (or smaller) critters all the way up to clams, oysters and other exoskeletal animals in the form of a variety of carbonates of calcium. Step 3, when they die, their skeletons drift to the bottom where they accumulate over the eons to form limestone and ultimately marble.
So, the answer to where all the Triassic CO2 went is that some of it is in the new marble bathroom that the lady of the house DEMANDED you install. The rest is in the rocks covering the entire world.
Does THIS plug the hole?
November 12th, 2009 at 8:30 am
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November 12th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
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November 12th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
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December 2nd, 2009 at 4:29 pm
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December 9th, 2009 at 3:34 am
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May 5th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
I found this Russian secret some time ago when researching oil and peak oil on the web. The Russians have managed to keep this very secret. They almost lost it when they sold off their state oil companies and realized their mistake taking back state control just in time. They have found oil using these techniques in Siberia and Vietnam – all oil wells are very deep. The west refuses to believe it because the “peak oil claim” keeps oil prices nice and high!
It will be “discovered” when conveniant!
May 15th, 2010 at 7:32 am
I have been looking into this theory for about 8 to 10 years, a customer of mine had so oil wells on his property. As I went out to his place after a few time I saw some wells in operation and other not. I asked him why they were not all running and he answered saying “two reasons, first the government only allows they to pump so much a day, week or month, ant the other was they did not want to pump the wells dry because it take too long for them to refill.” I ask “Refill?” his reply was yes refill that the wells refill over time and the more they pump the longer it take to fill, much like the old hand dug wells. And that oil is typical found with water.
My dad currently work with the drilling rigs in south Texas, some of these well go down about 20,000 feet and he said that the water wells that are in the area that are close to the same depths have hot water at about 100+ Degrees F. After some more research I found that most natural seeps occur around areas that have geological activity of some kind. California has lots of natural seeps where oil oozes from the ground and the ocean floor.
One of the theories that I read is that Oil is a form of condensed methane. Basically when methane is heated then cooled and under pressure it forms a liquid. This liquid then is attacked by microbes that feed off of it giving it the organic signature that it has. Now I’m not sure of the detail in how and what exact conditions that methane needs to be in to condense and what other factors are involved, how ever I have seen reports (not sure on how accurate) of crude oil being found at the bottoms of land fills. This could be simply the fact that there was a large amount of used oils such as motor oil that was discarded with normal trash the ended up in the land fill.
One last point is a number of old oil wells that stopped producing oil have recently started producing oil again. One example was a well off the cost of Louisiana that when first opened was producing 30,000 barrels a day, then dropped to 15,000, then to 5,000 barrels a day and stayed that way for a number of years, they were thinking about capping it when the production of the well went back to 30,000 barrels a day. They tested the oil and found that it was newer oil the what they had originally tested when they first drilled the well. They thought that it seeped in from a neighboring reserve, however the well was at the top of a mound and the only place the new oil could come from was a deeper source.
This is just for thoughts on thing that I have found. I’m still open to other ideas and refining my over all theory as I find new information.
November 22nd, 2010 at 2:56 am
This sounds plausible, though I’m a lowly mech. engr., not a Dr. Physical Chemistry. There ar e rumors that the BP leak was a tap into an abiotic source as well as some of the latest Putin drilling projects. I was alos wondering about ‘fossil’ fuel creation. If some oil does come from compacted organic, bio-derived matter, why would we think that it isn’t an ongoing process? Living organisms haven’t decreased in number noticeably, so why would it be reasonable (or is it just fashionable) to conclude that the silt sinking and being compacted and heated, etc. simply stopped at some point in time? Supposedly it is still going on in swamps and oceans around the world. Or is the argument that we use it at too high a rate to keep up with natural formation?
December 7th, 2010 at 10:37 am
[...] to an interview with oil-expert Dr. Kenney Russian and Ukrainian scientists found that a continuous reaction occurs naturally at a depth of approximately 100 km at a pressure of [...]