Black Gold
By Bret Burquest
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But suppose the supply of oil was
somehow regenerating itself and not in danger of being depleted after all.
Dr. Thomas Gold is a physicist at
Dr. Gold is also a proponent of
the "abiotic" theory of oil. Developed by
the Russians in the 1950s, the abiotic theory states
that oil is not derived from decayed plant and animal life, but is rather a
bio-product of a continual biochemical reaction below the surface of the earth
that is forced to attainable depths by the centrifugal forces of the earth's
rotation. In other words, oil is continually being produced (created) deep
within the planet.
"The Deep Hot Biosphere: The
Myth of Fossil Fuels" is Dr. Gold's groundbreaking book, published in
1998, that promotes the idea that oil is not a fossil fuel and, contrary to
popular belief, is a renewable resource.
While conventional scientific
wisdom dictates that life is formed on the Earth's surface, with the aid of the
sun, Dr. Gold believes that most living entities reside deep within the Earth's
crust at temperatures exceeding 100 degrees Celsius, living off of methane and
other hydrocarbons.
Although highly regarded as a
physicist, Dr. Gold has had a history as being a maverick. In the 1950s, the
first radio astronomers discovered odd radio sources in the sky and thought
they were unusual stars. Dr. Gold claimed they were actually distant galaxies.
Years later, with new technology, Dr. Gold was proven to be correct.
In the 1960s, a different type of
radio source was detected in the skies, flashing on and off with regularity.
Dr. Gold wrote that these pulsars were neutron stars, the existence of which
had been predicted but had never been seen. Although many of his colleagues
scoffed at this explanation, once again Dr. Gold was proven to be correct.
Jerome R. Corsi
(PhD from Harvard) is the author of 18 books, including "Atomic Iran" and "Unfit for Command."
Craig R. Smith (Chairman of the board of Swiss America Trading Company) is the
author of 24 scholarly books. Corsi and Smith have
co-authored "Black Gold Stranglehold," which shares the notion that
oil is continually created deep inside the planet and contends that the
so-called scarcity is a marketing ploy to charge higher prices.
If Corsi,
Smith and Dr. Gold are correct, this may be both a blessing and a curse. An
endless supply of oil would probably mean an endless supply of air pollution
from automobiles. This is bad news. Many people believe auto emissions trapped
in the atmosphere create a global warming resulting in changing global weather
patterns.
But suppose global warming is
cyclical in nature and/or caused by natural forces beyond human control.
Corsi
and Smith argue that global warming is unrelated to the burning of hydrocarbon
fuels. They point out that carbon dioxide is far less than one percent of the
atmosphere; not abundant enough to make a difference.
The energy emitted from the sun
varies in intensity and studies have shown that fluctuations in activity on the
sun have an effect on the temperature of Earth's atmosphere. According to
Sallie Baliunas (Ph.D.,
There has also been an increase in
the number of underwater volcanoes in the
Life is full of contradictions. We
may or may not ever run out of oil and global warming (if it even exists) may
or may not be caused by humans. In any event, it gives scientists a couple more
quandaries to resolve.
Science is like beauty -- the
truth is always in the eye of the beholder.
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Bret Burquest is an award-winning columnist and author of four
novels. Contact bret@centurytel.net
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