Monday, July 24, 2006
So much for the "peak oil" nonsense
We've discovered vast lakes of hydrocarbons.
8 Comments:
By 
Gordon Smith, at
Mon Jul 24, 10:54:00 PM:
Sweet.
When's the Bush adminstration going to give Halliburton a no-bid contract to excavate?
Peak oil is a big deal. Global warming is a big deal. Much bigger deals than the several thousand terrorists.
I know I'm being humorless, but the inconvenient truth is that we must face overpopulation, rising energy needs, rising food needs, rising water needs, and energy technologies that are propelling us towards a cataclysm.
By Cardinalpark, at
Mon Jul 24, 11:14:00 PM:
And we must read our Malthus and drink our castor oil too...
By Final Historian, at
Mon Jul 24, 11:53:00 PM:
I would like to be the first to predict that the first "Space War" will be over...you guessed it... OIL.
The more things change... the more they stay the same.
By 
, at
Tue Jul 25, 10:01:00 AM:
dinosaurs in outer space. who knew?
anyone else think hydrocarbons are not the result of a bunch of animals dying?
By Fabio, at
Tue Jul 25, 11:45:00 AM:
Hydrocarbons can be the result of different processes; a candidate is the action of ionizing radiations on clouds containing hydrogen and carbon.
Liquid methane and ethane are rather too cold, but if there are heavier liquid hydrocarbons, there can be life over there...
By beadlizard, at
Tue Jul 25, 12:14:00 PM:
Have you read about abiogenic petroleum? Wikipedia has an interesting article, for starters. --S
By ScurvyOaks, at
Tue Jul 25, 05:14:00 PM:
Speaking of methane, check out UC Santa Barbara's research on methane blowouts from the sea floor, which is linked to and artfully commented upon at www.florida-cracker.org/archives/003329.html
By Dawnfire82, at
Tue Jul 25, 09:09:00 PM:
It's academically fascinating that people can refer to something that has not actually been proven to exist (and that has been so falsely overhyped throughout my lifetime that I don't even listen anymore; "What, the Ozone layer is repairing itself? *sputter* Lies! Lies?") can be an 'inconvenient [b]truth[/b]' and a more serious problem than militant fanatics trying to detonate an atomic weapon in one of our cities...
Also, and I just thought about this, how "several thousand terrorists" can be casually dismissed when one wants to talk about global warming... unless one is ranting on how the Bushitler's foreign policy is a miserable failure spawning thousands more (justly) aggrieved 'terrorists,' in which case the seriousness and numbers are dramatically played up.
Ever thought of going into politics? I'm sure you'd win in California.
