New tests could further undermine ‘fossil fuels’

Scientists who have confirmed that abiotic hydrocarbons are being released from the Lost City hydrothermal field in the Mid-Atlantic range at the bottom of the ocean say they are returning to that location this summer to try to confirm the presence of more complex hydrocarbon chains, a result that would further undermine the assumption that oils are the result of decomposed and compressed organisms.

“We looked for C1-C4 hydrocarbons – alkanes, alkenes and alkynes – and detected them all,” Giora Proskurowski, the marine geochemist who headed the Woods Hole team that already has done work at the Lost City site, told WND in an e-mail.
The breakthrough in the Woods Hole exploration of the Lost City sea vents indicates simple C1-C4 abiotic hydrocarbon structures are produced from the earth’s mantle without the involvement or addition of any organic material whatsoever, scientists said.

Should the scientists find advanced abiotic hydrocarbon chains on their return to the Lost City Mid-Atlantic site this coming summer, it will be further evidence for the abiotic theory of the origin of oil, advancing a 263-year-old scientific debate in favor of the abiotic theory.

The abiotic theory, should its proof continue to be determined by credible scientific observation, may overturn the organic origin of oil theory, as a result casting doubt on “peak oil” premises.

Peak oil, first postulated in 1956 by Shell Oil scientist M. King Hubbert, argues the earth’s available supply of organically generated oil eventually will be exhausted.

Simply put, peak oil suggests that there is a limited amount of fossil (or other biological) material available to deteriorate over eons, so there can be only so much oil.

Abiotic oil suggests oil production within the mantle of the earth may be ongoing and that oil can be generated synthetically, according to physical laws described by the FTT equations.

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