16-October-2007, 06:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Tucson_Tim
I may be wrong, but finding an asteroid with hydrocarbon deposits may be next to impossible. All the coal, oil, and oil shale deposits here on the Earth are the result of bio-mass. Not sure about Natural Gas.
ETA: Naturral Gas is also a fossil fuel.
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I have no opinion on this (not qualified) but there is a growing number of people who are disputing this (originally from a Wall Street Journal article):
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Still, most geologists are hard-pressed to explain why the world's greatest oil pool, the Middle East, has more than doubled its reserves in the past 20 years, despite half a century of intense exploitation and relatively few new discoveries. It would take a pretty big pile of dead dinosaurs and prehistoric plants to account for the estimated 660 billion barrels of oil in the region, notes Norman Hyne, a professor at the University of Tulsa in Oklahoma. "Off-the-wall theories often turn out to be right," he says.
Even some of the most staid U.S. oil companies find the Eugene Island discoveries intriguing. "These reservoirs are refilling with oil," acknowledges David Sibley, a Chevron Corp. geologist who has monitored the work at Eugene Island.
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http://www.oralchelation.com/faq/wsj4.htm
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