The closer you get to the mantle the hotter it gets. Oil is the product of carbon-hydrogen chains that form only at certain temperatures. Too hot and it turns into natural gas as its structures breaks down into small carbon chains and vaporizes. Any closer to the mantle and the chains break down totally. If there was carbon present in th…
The closer you get to the mantle the hotter it gets. Oil is the product of carbon-hydrogen chains that form only at certain temperatures. Too hot and it turns into natural gas as its structures breaks down into small carbon chains and vaporizes. Any closer to the mantle and the chains break down totally. If there was carbon present in the mantle and core, would we have heard of it? Right now, the only entity that assembles carbon into complex chains such as proteins and rings such as sugars if life itself.
Also, the depletion of easy to get oil makes us need to use much more expensive methods of getting it. When I was a teen, gasoline was 18 cents a gallon. It is now 3-5 dollars a gallon. I wonder why? As JHK has noted, fracking and deep sea rigs cost millions. When the first oil well, (Drake) was drilled, he stuck a pole into the ground to get it. Easy access to oil is just about over, the soda straws are drying up.
Abiotic oil would would need carbon chain assembly as it comes out of the mantle as free carbon, and its assembly would require hydrogenation also. If that was possible, why wouldn’t we just assemble chains here, now. Again, life is the only entity that assembles complex carbon structures.
The closer you get to the mantle the hotter it gets. Oil is the product of carbon-hydrogen chains that form only at certain temperatures. Too hot and it turns into natural gas as its structures breaks down into small carbon chains and vaporizes. Any closer to the mantle and the chains break down totally. If there was carbon present in the mantle and core, would we have heard of it? Right now, the only entity that assembles carbon into complex chains such as proteins and rings such as sugars if life itself.
Also, the depletion of easy to get oil makes us need to use much more expensive methods of getting it. When I was a teen, gasoline was 18 cents a gallon. It is now 3-5 dollars a gallon. I wonder why? As JHK has noted, fracking and deep sea rigs cost millions. When the first oil well, (Drake) was drilled, he stuck a pole into the ground to get it. Easy access to oil is just about over, the soda straws are drying up.
Abiotic oil would would need carbon chain assembly as it comes out of the mantle as free carbon, and its assembly would require hydrogenation also. If that was possible, why wouldn’t we just assemble chains here, now. Again, life is the only entity that assembles complex carbon structures.
Oil is a necessary product for modern civilization, limited resources should be used for priority purposes and bridging strategies.
This relationship is not well understood.