Natural gas ... from where?

I have given much thought to the abundance of energy we shall enjoy in this whole coming century. The vast reserves of natural gas shall be the equivalent of free energy. Free energy creates free water for the parts of the world where this may have become a problem.  The same is true for CO2 (if it is important) because free energy can easily deal with sequestration and breaking or joining the CO2 molecule to other molecules.  It should be the end of the clean and green field. The dead end.

Free energy will put the Arab-Muslim world at a great disadvantage.  The Arab-Muslim world live in the centuries before the Enlightenment, before the harnessing of commerce and technology.  They are currently irrelevant to this real world, despite their oil riches; they contribute nothing novel, technological, interesting or vital. Think about Islamic investment: a farcical, juvenile, self-deceptive absurdity. The Arabs-Muslims probably will be insignificant in this century of free energy, where commerce and technology will become even more important.

There is something of comparable interest.  Natural gas may not just be abundant, it may be inexhaustible. That is a thesis of Thomas Gold and other abiogenic theorists. 

It should not be surprising that humans have considered the possibility that natural gas is an inexhaustible out-gassing from deep in the earth and has nothing to do with buried organics eaten by bacteria.  Jupiter our biggest planet is entirely frozen natural gas and so are all the planets beyond Jupiter.

Anyway, this is just to let you know.  Thomas  Gold got Swedish researchers to look into his hypothesis but then behaved in such an unscientific way (concealing data) that he spoiled the research field for the time being.

Comments

[David Boxenhorn]

Natural gas is always found in conjunction with heavier hydrocarbons which are organically derived.

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The subject of the availability of energy is covered in "The Bottomless Well". See on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Bottomless-Well-Twilight-Virtue-Energy/dp/046503117X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1257534033&sr=8-1