http://www.metafilter.com/tags/thomasgold Posts tagged with 'thomasgold' at MetaFilter. Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:29:05 -0800 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:29:05 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/34340/Bubbling%2Dup <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38645">Sustainable oil?</a> Over the past few years there's been a growing theory that oil is not created from the decaying remains of ancient biological life but is in fact a product of the Earth's geological processes and that the current estimated oil reserves may be off by a factor of 100. This theory was made popular by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gold">Thomas Gold</a> at Cornell way back in 1992 and has led to much more recent <a href="http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/full/99/17/10976">research</a> (warning: heavy scientific conent) which supports the theory. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.34340 Thu, 15 Jul 2004 02:29:05 -0800 cornell fossilfuels geology oil thomasgold PenDevil http://www.metafilter.com/7888/ What if oil and natural gas <a href="http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/142/science/Scientist_stirs_the_cauldron_Oil_he_says_is_renewable%2b.shtml">were renewable resources</a>? Prof. Thomas Gold opines that oil is produced by microbes breaking down methane deep within the earth, thus explaining how some depleted oilfields have begun producing again. He even wrote a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0387985468/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">book</a> on it. Brilliant re-examination of accepted theory or crackpot lunatic? tag:metafilter.com,2001:site.7888 Tue, 22 May 2001 11:36:24 -0800 authors books brokenlink energy environment renewable thomasgold CRS