Is "Dinosaur Oil" Really from Dinosaurs?

[rbattelle]

An interesting theory.



Maybe we'll never run out of oil...



-Ryan

 

[HeavyHauler]

The link doesn't work.

 

[Turbo Tim 1]

http://www.wnd.com/news/article. asp?ARTICLE_ID=38645

 

[FATCAT]

Great ... then where is my $. 05/gal. diesel? Lets go, pump those wells fast and furious.

 

[rbattelle]

Sorry about that! I guess I need to test my links before posting them. Tim posted the correct link...



-Ryan

 

[BigEasy]

thanks for the link... My dad was a science teacher, and he never believed the rotting dinosaur crap. There's just WAY more oil than there would have been organic matter, and it's too deep under the surface.

 

[rbattelle]

It's still very much a theory, and not widely accepted by western scientists. I think the Russians are much bigger supporters than we are.



-Ryan

 

[DragonflyDriver]

Consider the source (WorldNetDaily).

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

I think that deep inside our planet is a little wizard guy who magically turns water into crude oil - probably the same guy who turns lead into gold...



For those choosing to believe the above, party on and use lots of fossil fuels (wonder where THAT term came from... )



For the REST of the sentient world, better keep on looking for reasonable fuel alternatives...

 

[rbattelle]

Nevermind the WorldNetDaily article, did you guys read his paper? It's available free from National Academy of Sciences.



-Ryan

 

[Rescue Ram]

It is interesting enough. I am working my way though it as we speak.

 

[BigEasy]

Gary, if it's completely BS, explain to me how that much organic matter came to be 8 miles below the Earth's surface, 2 miles deeper than Everest is tall... consider that for just one moment.



Is water the substance that's red hot and boiling at the center of the planet?



"Scientists" used to say that the world was flat, and the moon was made of cheese, too.

 

[Gary - K7GLD]

Gary, if it's completely BS, explain to me how that much organic matter came to be 8 miles below the Earth's surface, 2 miles deeper than Everest is tall... consider that for just one moment.



Is water the substance that's red hot and boiling at the center of the planet?



"Scientists" used to say that the world was flat, and the moon was made of cheese, too.

I wouldn't even remotely pretend to be a "crude oil expert" - but it seems logical to me that pools of oil are NOT strictly restricted to random isolated pools, completely cut off from others.



I would sorta assume that varying degrees of interconnection and subsequent flow DOES exist between many of these fields - and that if/when a lower elevation pool is seemingly exhausted, other tapped, or untapped sources could slowly migrate into the drained one.



Seems that oil to a large extent, might flow over wide areas like water does, and tend to equalize levels as oil is pumped and *seemingly* "magically" recharge what was thought to be a previously emptied source.



Is there reason for surprise that oil might be found at extremely low points? NO, not as long as an accessable channel is available, and a cavern or place for it to accumulate exists - not too hard to visualize, what with earthquake and volcanic activity that regularly changes the structure of the earth's crust...

 

[tractorface]

My..uh..crazy thoughts

I have always wondered what the purpose of the oil is, I mean what does it do for the earth? Is it possible that it acts like a big fluid damper like the fluid in a Harmonic balancer? At some point might we go spinning . . er. . wobbling of course because we sucked one too many gallons out of the earth?



Put it back Put it back :-laf :-laf

 

[jlasich]

I remember hearing of this theory several years ago. I think that, like all theories, it warrants being explored more to see if it is in fact, fact. I must say that it sounds very intriguing. It would take a lot of dead dinos and decayed vegetation to create all the oil that we've consumed.



Just because petroleum was coined "fossil fuel" doesn't mean that it's correct, scientists are just people too and they have been wrong in the past.

 

[rbattelle]

Perhaps the most interesting part is that if oil is created via some tangible, measureable process within the Earth then it stands to reason that we will eventually emulate the process in a lab, thereby creating a potentially limitless supply.



If petroleum is comprised of hydrocarbon chains, then it stands to reason that one day the technology to manufacture the same hydrocarbon chains in large quantities using hydrogen and carbon will be available. Or am I blowing smoke?



-Ryan

 

[FATCAT]

Perhaps the most interesting part is that if oil is created via some tangible, measureable process within the Earth then it stands to reason that we will eventually emulate the process in a lab, thereby creating a potentially limitless supply.



If petroleum is comprised of hydrocarbon chains, then it stands to reason that one day the technology to manufacture the same hydrocarbon chains in large quantities using hydrogen and carbon will be available. Or am I blowing smoke?



-Ryan

Hydrocarbon chains? Why ... I produce them on occasion after a large bean or chile dinner. :-laf