Oil is not renewable, why use more and more?
The recent sharp fluctuations in international oil prices have caused everyone to exclaim that crude oil can be cheaper than water.
When I was a child, my teacher clearly told us that oil is a non-renewable resource, and the oil with reserves of only a few decades has been burned for so long, shouldn't it have been used up a long time ago?
But more than a hundred years have passed, and instead of depleting oil resources, they have increased.
Were we all cheated when we were kids? Today we will talk about the story of the formation of oil. Scientists have been trying to figure out the true cause of oil.
There have been many arguments about the formation of oil, but so far, the mainstream theory is bio-oil theory.
This theory holds that oil is a non-renewable energy source, in ancient times on the earth, due to natural disasters caused a large number of animals and plants to die, these dead remains flowed into the sea with the movement of the earth's crust, due to the presence of a large amount of salt in the seawater, it was not immediately decomposed by bacteria.
Finally, these organic matter mixes with sediments such as sediment and carbonate to form sedimentary rocks. Due to the continuous accumulation and thickening of sedimentary rocks, the temperature and pressure rise, and eventually oil and gas will be formed through various conditions such as biochemistry, high catalysis, and high pressure. In fact, the bio-oil theory is only the early speculation of scientists, and there is no empirical evidence at all.
Imagine that the existing proven oil reserves on The earth are as many as hundreds of millions of tons, how many ancient biological remains are needed to form?
However, the remains of animals and plants after death are quickly decomposed by bacteria in nature, and there is not so much organic matter accumulating at all, and the amount of remaining oil available for extraction is increasing at present.
It was a complete slap in the face. The depletion of oil theory now has a theory that scientists believe that the cause of oil is likely to be the same as natural gas, the result of a complex chemical reaction between oxygen and carbon dioxide in the earth's crust. Oil is generated in the mantle, and much faster than we thought. If this conclusion is confirmed, the oil will be inexhaustible and inexhaustible. Which statement do you think is more reliable? We saw me in the comments section that I was Wei Weidong, and I was always there.