No Fossils, Lots of Fuel
No Fossils, Lots of Fuel
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UPDATE 25FEB2024: New discovery crushes hope of finding life on Titan. More proof of abiotic hydrocarbons.
UPDATE 7MAR2024: Four men asphyxiated by natural gas seep in 8m-deep (26ft) water well in West Java.
There is no such thing as “fossil fuels”.
The term arose in the 17th century, coined by a German physicist named Georg Agricola, in his attempt to explain the presence of plant litter in coal deposits. The term was popularized by Sinclair Oil in the early 20th century, whose mascot was a cartoon Brontosaurus. Though there are significant remains of plants in many coal deposits, it is impossible for the plants to be the origin of coal. Instead, the litter gets stuck in tar pits while it is still viscous, then becomes incorporated into coal as it hardens.
In chemistry, “organic” means molecules containing the element carbon, usually bound to hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and/or sulfur. In it’s strictest sense, hydrocarbons are the poster children of “organic” compounds. If you support all things “organic,” then you should love petroleum.
Tholins, tar-like complex hydrocarbons, are found throughout our Solar System. The term was coined by Carl Sagan in the 1970s, to describe the vast amounts of organic compounds found throughout the Solar System. Though geophysicists and chemists will deny any possible connection, the composition and appearance of crude oil and tholins are nearly identical. Tholins — and crude oil — are found anywhere significant amounts of nitrogen, hydrogen and carbon are found in proximity to strong magnetic fields. The term “tholin,” either by intent or not, maintains a conceptual boundary between Earth-based hydrocarbons (oil, natural gas and coal), and the dark red sticky substances found throughout the Solar System on planets, moons, asteroids, and comets.
The two bodies with the greatest known amounts of complex hydrocarbons are Earth and Saturn’s moon Titan. On Earth, we have been using these deposits for most of human existence, though large-scale mining, refining and exploitation have only arisen in the last 200 years.
Titan has vast reservoirs of complex hydrocarbons in its atmosphere, rivers, lakes, and seas. It is thought to have a hydrocarbon cycle, much like Earth’s water cycle, with rain, pooling, evaporation, and cloud formation.
Both Earth and Titan have dense nitrogen-rich atmospheres (and to a lesser extent Neptune and Triton), with significant amounts of methane and ammonia present. The Earth generates its own powerful magnetic field, but Titan does not, though it orbits well inside of Saturn’s enormous and powerful field.
At this point, we introduce another concept known as the Electric Universe, or alternatively as Plasma Cosmology. This theory posits that the Universe is a massive electrical generator, and as such has huge, ubiquitous magnetic fields creating and steering streams of plasma, which occasionally “pinch” to create stars and planets.
In the laboratory, complex hydrocarbons are routinely created using plasma, electro-magnetic fields, heat, and pressure, using gases such as nitrogen, carbon monoxide and dioxide, ammonia, and others. Some of these processes are used in commercial applications. These processes can build longer hydrocarbon chains, or “crack” longer ones into shorter ones, creating a large array of products, catalysts and chemical precursors.
For the sake of brevity, we will move on, but the reader is highly encouraged to study these topics, as combined they introduce the central concept for our purposes, know as abiogenic, or abiotic oil.
The term “fossil fuel” is predicated on the assumption that complex hydrocarbons — at least on Earth — are generated by “anaerobic digestion” of plant and animal matter by certain types of bacteria to create “biogenic” oil and gas. The category of “fossil fuels” generally include crude oil, natural gas and coal. The idea is that large amounts of biomass are quickly covered and are digested in low oxygen environments that are further subjected to high temperatures and tremendous pressure, thus transforming the biomass into “fossil fuel”.
Among the many problems with this concept are the need for hydrocarbons to exist in the first place to give rise to life (chicken and the egg), and the presence of complex hydrocarbons throughout the Solar System where life presumably has not arisen.
Biogenic oil might seem like a reasonable assumption. There are many devices available on the market, or plans to build them, that turn lawn clippings and organic waste into natural gas, though none of them generate the presumptive temperatures and pressure needed to further create oil and coal. However, the mechanisms to transfer biomass in low oxygen environments to the depths required to find the necessary heat and pressure are only theorized (subduction) and the cycles have never been observed in their entirety.
In the 1950s, Russian scientist Nikolai Kudryanvtsev proposed a theory for abiotic creation of crude oil. He theorised that gases trapped in the Earth’s mantle and subjected to tremendous heat and pressure, generated complex hydrocarbons that then seeped up through fissures in the crust until they congealed and collected in geological reservoirs.
If we add to Kudryavtsev’s process and strong electro-magnetic currents generated by the circuit created between the Earth and Sun, we essentially have a massive laboratory for generating large quantities of complex hydrocarbons, a.k.a. tholins, a.k.a. crude oil, natural gas and coal. Thus, the Electric Universe, plasma physics and basic chemistry combine to create the compounds we use daily in our machines, plastics, cosmetics, fertilizers, and a vast array of common products.
In a poor but serviceable analogy, crude oil is like raw milk, coal is the cream floating to the top, and natural gas is the methane given off by bacteria digesting the fats and lactose If we compress the cream, we get cheese, and if we churn the milk, we get butter.
The hydrocarbons rise through cracks in the crust until they are trapped by certain geological layers, usually limestone. The solids rise to the top of the reservoir, where they are compressed by the natural gas and surrounding rock to form the dense solids we call coal. In our analogy, crude oil is butter, coal is cheese, and natural gas is the smell we perceive as “sour milk”.
Some of the evidence for this process include the facts that “depleted” oil fields often refill after a period of rest; petroleum fields are most often found in tectonically active regions and frequently around volcanic regions, where fissures reach down into the crust/mantle boundary; and the two major reserves of complex hydrocarbons in solid, liquid and gaseous forms in the Solar System are both nitrogen-rich bodies in strong magnetic fields (Earth and Titan). There is even recent evidence suggesting coal on Mars.
Organic compounds, like tholins and petroleum, are considered signatures of possible life outside our planet. CO2 is vital to plant growth and “greening” the planet. Living beings require the intake of organic compounds to grow and rebuild tissues. Everything we know of as life is completely dependent on carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. Nothing could be more natural and life-sustaining than hydrocarbons.
The argument in favor of abiogenic oil demands a return to First Principles. Our current “science” has been derailed and gone off down a mathemagical journey into the La La Land of relativity and observational frames. The Universe, as far as we can see, is composed of electricity, magnetism and plasma. Together, these forces create vast amounts of organic compounds, which in turn form the basis for all life as we currently know it.
It makes more sense that electro-chemical processes in celestial bodies create hydrocarbons, which in turn form the raw materials for the emergence of life, than it does for life to form a toxic waste material called petroleum that is fouling our planet. Hydrocarbons clearly do not depend on life to create them, but rather life depends on hydrocarbons to sustain it.
This essay is perforce a brief overview of a highly complex and fascinating topic. Because electro-magnetics and plasma physics have been ignored since the end of the 19th century, in favor of Einsteinian mathemagic, there is still a vast universe to explore in this regard, with the promise of limitless new physics. Regardless of how hard scientidiots pretend they understand everything, current cosmology has no explanation for how life arises out of the void. All the “titans” of modern physics politely tap dance around the whole topic of Life, yet any true Grand Unified Theory of Everything must address and explain Life, since it obviously exists.
Don’t misunderstand — there is still plenty of room to perfect the means by which we harness petroleum to improve efficiency and reduce waste. However, petroleum is still the most efficient, portable and power-packed unlimited and renewable natural resource we have, short of finally admitting we literally spend our lives swimming in limitless and free electricity throughout the entire Universe.
The implications are enormous — hydrocarbons are good, plentiful and beneficial, the Universe generates electricity as its primal function, and the next step in our philosophical and technological development demands the rejection of Einsteinian/Quantum physics and a return to Maxwell, Faraday and Tesla.
Yes, we’ve wasted an entire century and vast resources chasing the phantasms of numerical legerdemain, but just as when we take a wrong turn, we must return to the point where we went wrong and take the road less travelled.
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First of all, let’s get rid of the term “fossil fuels”.
Naturally-occurring hydrocarbons are “abiotic”.
Hydrocarbon products are constantly being created deep within the earth by yet-unknown processes well below the layers that contain fossils. Keep in mind that hydrocarbons migrate upward and pass through “fossil layers” picking up remnants of “fossil” material; hence, the present-day scientists’ stupid mistaken assumption that hydrocarbons are derived from “fossils”.
Oil interests are drilling wells at 5,000 feet, 10,000 feet, and 15,000 feet and deeper, and coming up with oil deposits well below the layers and levels where “fossils” were known to exist.
As Russia gained much expertise in deep-well drilling and coming up with oil deposits far deeper than that of the level of "fossils", abiotic oil at extreme depths was actually a Russian “state secret" for a long time.
“Peak oil” and "fossil fuels” are discredited dishonest concepts that environmentalists and others are latching on to, in order to display their hatred of oil being a renewable resource as well as to push prices up.
Follow the money.
Naturally-occurring hydrocarbons have done more to advance civilization than any other influence. It is the discovery, creation and utilization of ENERGY that propels civilizations upward and onward.
We have more oil underneath our feet than the rest of the world. In fact, we became energy independent under Trump. That trend was reversed with the Biden regime.
For a good treatise on abiotic oil, please google L. Fletcher Prouty. He is a scientist who gives a good explanation of “abiotic oil”.
You might like John Wheeler and Richard Feynman's work on this topic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheeler%E2%80%93Feynman_absorber_theory