Monday, December 28, 2015

Titan hydrocarbons ARE NOT fossil fuels 

In Titan, satellite of Saturn there are much more hydrocarbons than in Earth 
(and temperature is approximately 180 degrees below zero)

Recent update from NASA: "Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth"



The knowledge gained from recent space exploration, with images and interplanetary probes and the data obtained through the Hubble Space Telescope and new ground-based telescopes, allow us to look at our planet with a different perspective
The new information has provided elements to revise the present approach. However these data has not yet reached to the entire scientific community, due to the inertia that permeates the academic-scientific apparatus, with its heavy burden of individual and corporate interests, positions of power and limelight opportunities.
However, in many these contributions have begun to deeply remove the traditional view of geological processes in general and specifically the generation of hydrocarbon..
Information gathered to date shows the relationship of the various bodies of the solar system and the similarity of the processes that gave rise to them. These data tendsto confirm the theory of accretion forming through the agglomeration of planets, planetoids and comets. It has also been found that the warming of these bodies occurred after their initial constitution as a result of the effect of gravitational contraction and the radioactivity of certain elements.
It has also been found that there is abundance of carbon, usually in the form of hydrocarbons or carbon oxides.
The available data shows that the internal structure of planets was originally heterogeneous, and that while it may have produced homogenization processes, many components of the original heterogeneity should still be present in the interior of the planetary bodies.
One of the main processes of internal dynamism after accretion has been
This involves the gradual rise of light and fluid elements or compounds.
The main molecules that are part of the gaseous envelopes of planets are nitrogen, methane, carbon dioxide and water.
Nitrogen is relatively abundant at the astronomical level and therefore the interior exudes outwardly forming nitrogen atmosphers when the mass and gravity are sufficient to retain them. 
The knowledge gained from recent space exploration, with images and interplanetary probes and the data obtained through the Hubble Space Telescope and new ground-based telescopes, allow us to look at our planet with a different perspective
The new information has provided elements to revise the present approach. However these data has not yet reached to the entire scientific community, due to the inertia that permeates the academic-scientific apparatus, with its heavy burden of individual and corporate interests, positions of power and limelight opportunities..
However, in many these contributions have begun to deeply remove the traditional view of geological processes in general and specifically the generation of hydrocarbon..
Information gathered to date shows the relationship of the various bodies of the solar system and the similarity of the processes that gave rise to them. These data tendsto confirm the theory of accretion forming through the agglomeration of planets, planetoids and comets. It has also been found that the warming of these bodies occurred after their initial constitution as a result of the effect of gravitational contraction and the radioactivity of certain elements.
It has also been found that there is abundance of carbon, usually in the form of hydrocarbons or carbon oxides.
The available data shows that the internal structure of planets was originally heterogeneous, and that while it may have produced homogenization processes, many components of the original heterogeneity should still be present in the interior of the planetary bodies.
One of the main processes of internal dynamism after accretion has been
This involves the gradual rise of light and fluid elements or compounds.
The main molecules that are part of the gaseous envelopes of planets are nitrogen, methane, carbon dioxide and water.
Nitrogen is relatively abundant at the astronomical level and therefore the interior exudes outwardly forming nitrogen atmospheres when the mass and gravity are sufficient to retain them.  (From "Unexhaustable? Oil and Natural Gas", D.Anton, Piriguazu Ediciones).
Quote from NASA:
"Saturn's orange moon Titan has hundreds of times more liquid hydrocarbons than all the known oil and natural gas reserves on Earth, according to new data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft. The hydrocarbons rain from the sky, collecting in vast deposits that form lakes and dunes.
The new findings from the study led by Ralph Lorenz, Cassini radar team member from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md., are reported in the Jan. 29 issue of the Geophysical Research Letters.
"Titan is just covered in carbon-bearing material -- it's a giant factory of organic chemicals," said Lorenz. "This vast carbon inventory is an important window into the geology and climate history of Titan."
At a balmy minus 179 degrees Celsius (minus 290 degrees Fahrenheit), Titan is a far cry from Earth. Instead of water, liquid hydrocarbons in the form of methane and ethane are present on the moon's surface, and tholins probably make up its dunes. The term "tholins"was coined by Carl Sagan in 1979 to describe the complex organic molecules at the heart of prebiotic chemistry." (From NASA) 

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20080213.html

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