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Zohaar, for the third time

"Returning to your initial post. Would you care to explain why the majority of wells that have been drilled some time ago run dry? Why fields have a finite productive life? Why the few instances where production has increased may be attributed to replenishment via fault line?

If your contention is that the process of re-generation takes an extended period of time then how can it solve the supply problem as you imply in this quote? If it occurs rapidly enough to ensure an adequate supply then why do we not see reservoirs routinely recharging?"

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I am at a loss to understand the purpose of your post 82.

Why? It's easy to understand. Zohaar cannot support his claim and he continuously tries to divert the conversation with prevarication. He simply doesn't realize that any proof that abiotic oil could exist does not disprove the existance of biotic oil. He has made the claim that there is no biotic oil and he can't support it. This is typical of those that want you to believe things on faith.

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"In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." Galileo Galilei

 

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

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Zohaar, for the fourth time

"Returning to your initial post. Would you care to explain why the majority of wells that have been drilled some time ago run dry? Why fields have a finite productive life? Why the few instances where production has increased may be attributed to replenishment via fault line?

If your contention is that the process of re-generation takes an extended period of time then how can it solve the supply problem as you imply in this quote? If it occurs rapidly enough to ensure an adequate supply then why do we not see reservoirs routinely recharging?"

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"In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual." Galileo Galilei
Note: of 'a' single individual, not 'all' single individuals.

 

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Note: All truth, not all postulates.
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Zohar, you make some good points, but there is no way that you can compare deep space with even the environment on earth, let alone the temperatures and pressures under the crust.

 

It is fairly obvious that methane, which is a simple molecule, has very different properties in all areas c.f. long chain hydrocarbons such as pentane or hexane, even without the heavier tars found in crude oil.

 

Conversion from plant life and animal life has been proven by radioisotope study, and is also borne out by the chiral structures found.

 

Finally, if oil was/is "growing" underground, how do you explain coal?

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I would appreciate it if you were to leave it open long enough for Zohaar to respond to my oft repeated question.

But we can't leave it open for eternity :xx:

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Being at the "triple point" for these hydrocarbons makes it possible for Titan to have methane or ethane cycles, much like Earth's water cycle.

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050627/titanlake.html

 

There is slightly different content in a Space News article posted by Tormond.

http://hypography.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3075

 

The following article provides some interesting relationships on the isotopes of Nitrogen present throughout the solar system, which might be relevant as to why there is so much methane on Titan.

 

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~genchem/0405/winter/5winn/lecture/isotopes.html

 

All compounds progress from the least complex to ever more complicated forms and I suspect we have not identified all the natural processes that produce the currently identified end forms.

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Does this mean we can flame the idiot now? Over a nice gas flame?

 

Careful now, if you say who the idiot is I will have to ban you for violating our site rules. :xx:

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