Biogenic v. Abiogenic Oil: Will Worldwide Production Peak? - Stanford S. Penner, PhD (2006)

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Amen, thanks for the upload

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Informative, thank you.

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excellent presentation.

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I thought I heard recently that there’s more water underground than there is the oceans. Vast underground oceans.

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No it was possibly hydrated minerals wherein the mass of the water may equal the mass of the oceans.

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@@seanvogel8067 Deep underground there might even be pockets where water and hydrocarbons form self-propagating/auto-catalytic reactions that resemble "life" on the surface. Deep Hot Biosphere as proposed by Thomas Gold.

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An Underground Ocean? Scientists Discover Water Deep Within Earth The current circumstances would undoubtedly favor this. The thick minerals wadsleyite and ringwoodite can hold significant amounts of water (unlike olivine at lower depths), so much so that the transition zone could hypothetically absorb six times the quantity of water in our oceans. “So we knew that the boundary layer has an enormous capacity for storing water,” Brenker says. “However, we didn’t know whether it actually did so.” The transition zone’s high water content has far-reaching consequences for the dynamic situation inside the Earth. What this leads to can be seen, for example, in the hot mantle plumes coming from below, which get stuck in the transition zone. There, they heat up the water-rich transition zone, which in turn leads to the formation of new smaller mantle plumes that absorb the water stored in the transition zone.

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Big Money” and the “Water Barons”: A New Water Source That Could Make Drought a Thing of the Past Oceans of water are beneath our feet, and new technologies are extracting it economically without ecological damage. By Ellen Brown