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...and perhaps explain the feasibility of a long term energy solution.
A number of years ago I visited Disney World Orlando and at Epcot Center sponsored by Exxon, they showed a 20 minute movie on where crude oil originated from In essence the propaganda message was that vegetation and animal life from 60 to 100 million years ago following their natural death and life cycles were subjected to the natural forces of the earth's movements including heat, pressure and chemical changes left huge deposits of what was to become the sources of today's pools crude oil reserves around the world.
Now for my question to the experts. In the last 150 years or so when the industrialized world discovered the many uses of oil and natural gas, as well as other fossil fuels (coal), the have been depleting these deposits at an ever increasing rate. When we discovered the severe toll such depletion practices had on other natural resources such as timber and fertile land, water, wildlife, fish, etc., we found ways to replenish and restock what was taken away.
Why can we not do something similar with oil. If in fact the oil deposits are the result of long term decay and transformation of dead vegetation and animals, why could we not replace the depleted oil well chambers with ground up soup or starter slurry of dead vegetation and animals, sewage sludge and whatever else nature has used in the past and then seal these up for future generations to use. We could also implement conservation measures to extend the long term uses of fossil fuels from their 50 to 75 year horizon that we are now following to ensure that for hundreds if not thousands of years, future generations will have available this precious and vital commodity for their use while the replacement pools are naturally converting transforming what we have installed?
I realize my idea may be somewhat simplistic, but as outdoor amateur gardener, I know that this practice has paid off for the production of replacement top soil and natural fertilizer with compost piles and barrels. Could not the same concept on a grander industrialized scale be employed to replenish what we have used in crude oil?
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