Earth may be constantly producing oil

Re:Earth may be constantly producing oil by pragmatic on Sunday September 13, 2009 @01:22PM (#820283)

Gold proposed that the Earth may possess a virtually endless supply – suggesting as much as "at least 500 million years' worth of gas"

Wow.

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Re:Earth may be constantly producing oil by eugenejen on Sunday September 13, 2009 @03:06PM (#820407)

I guess until the day we can drill oil/gas from Mars or Venus. Then we will know theory for the biogenic petroleum oil is not correct.

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Re:Earth may be constantly producing oil by PieSquared on Sunday September 13, 2009 @03:23PM (#820435)

There's no guarantee there's oil in either place. Remember, oil is the product of organic matter being compressed under heavy pressure for millions of years. Even if microbes or their remains are discovered on Mars or Venus, which they haven't (definitively), there's no guarantee that there was life of any considerable biomass.

So I really wouldn't get my hopes up for extraterrestrial oil at all, sad as that may be. On the other hand, minerals and metals most certainly exist outside of Earth, so...?

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Re:Earth may be constantly producing oil by eugenejen on Monday September 14, 2009 @06:15PM (#822723)

You seems misunderstood what I meant.

I meant if there is petroleum oil in Mars or Venus, it makes the abiogenic petroleum oil more possible be universal resources.

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Re:Earth may be constantly producing oil by eugenejen on Monday September 14, 2009 @05:40PM (#822668)

You seems misunderstood what I meant.

If there is petroleum oil in Mars or Venus. It make the abiogenic petroleum oil more possible be universal.

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Re:Earth may be constantly producing oil by ilkhd2 on Sunday September 13, 2009 @03:10PM (#820414)

However, no matter how you try, capacity to absorb CO2 is finite.

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