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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 09/09/2006 : 21:49:12 [Permalink]
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I see now where I was confused. I thought you were claiming the organic matter origin of oil was the wrong theory. You posted as if you were rebutting the link to the site describing the organic basis of oil.
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/10/2006 : 02:33:50 [Permalink]
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Please someone explain this to me: Was the Swedish oil actually abiotic oil, though little of it? If so, even if economically insignificant, isn't that scientifically interesting?
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 09/10/2006 : 07:35:25 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Please someone explain this to me: Was the Swedish oil actually abiotic oil, though little of it? If so, even if economically insignificant, isn't that scientifically interesting?
It probably came from overlying sedimtents that were subsequently scraped off by glaciation. Oil can migrate up or down from it's source rock. It may also have come from underground oil storage created during World War 2 (Sweden was neutral, but did stockpile oil). Any abiotic oil that was created in the mantle would be thermally cracked into lighter components on the way up as it passed through the "gas window". At the gas window depths the temperature is high enough and the pressure low enough to crack the oil.
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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Posted - 09/10/2006 : 15:17:57 [Permalink]
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quote:
Originally posted by HalfMooner
Please someone explain this to me: Was the Swedish oil actually abiotic oil, though little of it? If so, even if economically insignificant, isn't that scientifically interesting?
If you are referring to the oil I'm thinking about, extracted from shale in the 40s and 50s then it's biotic.
Edited to add: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
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Posted - 09/10/2006 : 15:46:13 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dr. Mabuse
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Originally posted by HalfMooner
Please someone explain this to me: Was the Swedish oil actually abiotic oil, though little of it? If so, even if economically insignificant, isn't that scientifically interesting?
If you are referring to the oil I'm thinking about, extracted from shale in the 40s and 50s then it's biotic.
The oil Mooner is referring to was pdocuced from a well in fratured granite in the Siljan Ring in the late 80s. |
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2006 : 16:03:48 [Permalink]
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Oh, that one...
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
3192 Posts |
Posted - 09/15/2006 : 05:40:34 [Permalink]
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Bill Nye came through for us,
It would take seven Mt. St. Helens exploding every day of the year to equal the amount of CO2 humans produce each year. |
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chaloobi
SFN Regular
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Posted - 09/18/2006 : 08:34:35 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by BigPapaSmurf
Bill Nye came through for us,
It would take seven Mt. St. Helens exploding every day of the year to equal the amount of CO2 humans produce each year.
Now THIS is what I was looking for. Can you please cite the source? |
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/18/2006 : 10:35:48 [Permalink]
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Yeah it was on the Science Channel's: 100 greatest discoveries, Earth Sciences episode.
I guess I should have said It takes 7 MSHs each day to produce the amount of CO2 produced by humans each day. Always forget to reduce my fractions... I think this figure may correspond to the total CO2 released over the course of many weeks by the mountain...
From Volcano FAQs
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I don't have an exact number. At Mount St Helens the maximum measured emission rate was 2.2X10^7 kg per day. The total amount of gas released during non-eruptive periods from the beginning of July to the end of October was 9.1X10^8 kg . I do not have an estimate for the volume of CO2 released during the Plinian eruptions. As a long-term average, volcanism produces about 5X10^11 kg of CO2 per year; that production, along with oceanic and terrestrial biomass cycling maintained a carbon dioxide reservoir in the atmosphere of about 2.2X10^15 kg. Current fossil fuel and land use practices now introduce about a (net) 17.6X10^12 kg of CO2 into the atmosphere and has resulted in a progressively increasing atmospheric reservoir of 2.69X10^15 kg of CO2. Hence, volcanism produces about 3% of the total CO2 with the other 97% coming from man-made sources. For more detail, see Morse and Mackenzie, 1990, Geochemistry of Sedimentary Carbonates.
Scott Rowland, University of Hawaii Steve Mattox, University of North Dakota
Source of Information:
Harris, D.M., Sato, M., Casadevall, T.J., Rose, Jr., W.I., and Bornhorst, T.J., 1981, Emission rates of CO2 from plume measurements, in Lipman, P.W., and Mullineaux, D.R., (eds.), The 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens, Washington, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1250, p. 3-15.
http://volcano.und.edu/vwdocs/Gases/man.html
says human emmisions are 150x of yearly volcanic activity, sites USGS/UND
The total emmisions released over the course of the eruption seems impossible to find, but the discrepency of the 3%/97% figure and the 1/150th figure I believe stems from the fact that we release much more now than when the 3%/97% number was done. |
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"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
15831 Posts |
Posted - 09/18/2006 : 14:40:12 [Permalink]
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Well, BigPapa, though I agree that vulcanism is a fairly minor source of CO2, as compared to human sources, that's still a lot of gas coming from volcanoes, at a time when every little bit hurts. Every one of these volcanoes is worse even than my old clunker of a car. There outta be some kind of accountability here. Maybe permits required, or an environmental impact report, prior to any volcanic event. But, just like the oil industry, these killer mountains seem to get a free pass.
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 09/19/2006 : 04:54:44 [Permalink]
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| Well they (volcanos) really have us by the balls on this one, no volcanism/no magnetic field. |
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