Is oil a renewable resource?

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: pradeep1
Yes, oil is renewable. Your decomposing body will probably become oil someday, but it won't benefit you much.

No, it probably won't.

http://www.cartage.org.lb/en/themes/Sci...rocarbon/HowOilandGas/HowOilandGas.htm

Oil and gas form as the result of a precise sequence of environmental conditions:

The presence of organic material
Organic remains being trapped and preserved in sediment
The material is buried deeply and then slowly "cooked" by increased temperature and pressure.

 

[drifter106]

Textbooks will teach that any resource that can not be renewed in less than 100 years is nonrenewable. I have been teaching that concept in middle school science for years.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

not in the sense of in our life time

eventually though all the dead fish n trees n crap will end up as crude oil or in coal seams....it just takes way to long to put money on. you could say its not immediatley or viably renewable.

at the end of the day we still must persue cleaner and more renewable energy sources because, even though im not entirely sure of this man made CO2 and SUV's are the root off all evil, i do agree that we have an almost certainty of running out of oil/coal/gas and that renewable and clean energy must be found.

if anything its better for all of us because with burning fossil fuels there is the immediate concern of other toxic gases that we breath in.

the combustion engine, as much as i love it, has really horrible efficency, turbines are better but their lag makes them hard to use in a car, especially for stop / go traffic.

if anything we need to go for renewable clean energy sources as a matter of furthering the human race. it gets boring when things dont change.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: Theguynextdoor
Yes, decaying compost under tons of pressure. Like Coal. It just renews too slowly to be practical.

Also it is not renewable by humans. Google Thermal Depolymization.

thats right

it would be cool if one day we could accelerate the natural decay and reprodruce the unimaginable pressures experienced so that we could harvest dead animals and turn them into that black sludge.

then if you could that, id hazard a guess you'd need way more energy to put in than you would get out.

im willing to bet that by that time we will have so many other and more efficient energy forms

 

[Rogodin2]

thats right

it would be cool if one day we could accelerate the natural decay and reprodruce the unimaginable pressures experienced so that we could harvest dead animals and turn them into that black sludge.

then if you could that, id hazard a guess you'd need way more energy to put in than you would get out.

im willing to bet that by that time we will have so many other and more efficient energy forms

'sweet crude' is not an easy recreation, it's a geological wonder and a single valuable blip on the only timeline we have. As a species I believe we've squanderd the most valuable resource this earth will produce (for our species).

I've no hope, I just throw golf balls into my pool.

Rogo

 

[sonoma1993]

oil post


you guys are going to get a good laugh out of this about what this person over on my local newspaper forum wrote about oil not being a fossil fuel.

Patriot Wrote

Petrol, oil, whatever you wish to call it is not a fossil fuel. It is produced in the earths core area and pushed up and outward. That is not scientifically written, by me, but it is a well known and understood factoid.

It was also thought that the earth was flat.

Next...do not , under any circumstances believe anything you hear, none of what you read and only half of what you see. In other words, do not believe what they teach you in school, and do not believe what you read on the internet. Go and prove it to yourself.

If oil is a fossil fuel, that means it came from fossils. Fossils are hard. They find alot of dinosaurs up here, not way down there. Then can I take that fossil fuel and get DNA from it dand re-create a dinosaur. Maybe Fred Flintstone?
How come the fossils of dinosaurs up here are not swimming in oil? Do we as creatures in our coffins decay into Shell Oil? How come We must dig so far under the oceans to find the drowning dinosaurs? It is because petrol is made from inside the earth, by the earth, and there is so much that we could never use it all, because it is endless. The slick (no pun intended) oil companies just want to give up your hard earned dollars and make them rich and you poor.

It is too bad that the Englesh and Americans did all that work so many years ago over in the mideast and gave it all to the Bedowins and Persians and had no foresight. Oh well, that's life. We have water, they have oil.

God Bless Lake Huron. Cool

 

[Rogodin2]

Great post sonoma

I'm glad to see that the poll shows that anandtech is somewhat aware of the incipience of our oncoming energy crisis.

Rogo

 

[Kirby64]

People, people please. Take the bickering and flame wars about oil to P&N. You guys need to head one floor down.

 

[Rogodin2]

Give us a impact stamp ratio.

I'll have to add 45 million shameless bumps.

Rogo

 

[Rogodin2]

A fifty split is despondent, the 60/40 supports my conclusion.

Thank god you don't live in my area.

Rogo

 

[Rogodin2]

I'm going to bump this thread until an atoter posts a valid reply. I suspect that hell will freeze over before the sliver of ratioinality is made manifest (a valid atot reply).

Bump, Bump, Bump.

Rogo

 

[Rogodin2]

I'm going to bump this thread until an atoter posts a valid reply. I suspect that hell will freeze over before the sliver of rationality is made manifest (a valid atot reply).

Bump, Bump, Bump.

Rogo

 

[Rogodin2]

It's nice to see that the poll is catching intelligent fish.

Rogo

 

[sandorski]

Sure it is...if you can wait a million years between tanks of Gas!

 

[OrganizedChaos]

if we had a magic box that produced unlimited energy i'm sure we could rip the hydrogen out of water and the carbon out of co2 to make new hydrocarbons.