With oil prices soaring, one has to ask: how many more years can oil burn? There are hundreds of millions of cars around the world, so many planes coming and going. The Boeing 747, a long-range large passenger aircraft, needs to be refueled with 85 tons of fuel at a time, and the Concorde supersonic airliner, which was recently decommissioned and stopped flying, needs to be refueled with 96 tons. Today, there are charging cars, and it seems that the charged planes still can't fly. The world's daily consumption has exceeded 70 million barrels in 1996, and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) expects it to reach 100 million barrels per day by 22 years (one barrel equals 159 liters or 42 gallons).
Actually, there is no need to rush. According to OPEC estimates, OPEC national reserves can be used for 80 years based on current mining volumes, while reserves in non-OPEC countries may be useful for 20 years.
OPEC has identified the largest oil producers
Saudi Arabia 261.4 billion barrels (about 29 billion tons).
Iraq 112 billion barrels (12.4 billion tons).
United Arab Emirates: 97.8 billion barrels (10.8 billion tons).
Kuwait 96.5 billion barrels (10.7 billion mt).
Iran 92.6 billion barrels (10.3 billion mt).
And that's not counting non-OPEC powers like the United States, Russia, and China.
According to the U.S. Department of Energy, as of January 1, the world's total oil reserves were 1,016 billion barrels (about 132 billion tons). In the past 150 years of industrial development, mankind has consumed half of the oil, and it is conservatively estimated that the earth once contained at least more than 200 billion tons of oil.
Today, it is widely believed that oil was produced by the decay of prehistoric animals under high temperatures and pressures. Scientists, however, have long puzzled how many prehistoric extinctions it would have taken to produce as much oil as it is today, and whether oil evolved simply from animal decay
We know that 70% of the human and animal bodies are water, and they only decay on the surface of the earth. According to the current theory, carbohydrates can only be broken down into hydrocarbons and become oil under high temperature and pressure underground. With a population of 7 billion (7,109), it is not difficult to calculate that an average of 70 kilograms per person would produce about 300 million tons**, assuming that humans raise livestock (not counting the scattered distribution of wild animals).
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According to the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC), the world consumes about 2.9 billion tonnes a year**. In other words, if all the current human beings and livestock are completely converted into **, these 300 million tons are only enough for one and a half months.
Some people say that prehistoric creatures were large and numerous. Let's assume that there were large and small prehistoric animals, with an average of one ton each, still calculated according to 30 percent of the effective ingredients, and that nearly 700 billion prehistoric creatures would have to form more than 200 billion tons of oil. Besides, they all have a living environment. Suppose they lived at the same density as humans do today, which is seven billion heads. Then it would take a hundred times of concentration and deep burial to produce more than 200 billion tons of oil.
However, archaeological finds do not support such an event. Scientists believe that the age of dinosaurs began when an asteroid hit the Earth 250 million years ago, and that the extinction of the dinosaurs caused by the asteroid's impact on the Earth 65 million years ago. From the Cambrian to the Cretaceous, only six mass extinctions have been found, and the two most significant cataclysms were surface extinctions caused by asteroid impacts. But we know that the extinction of dinosaurs on the surface of the earth only rotted and did not produce oil.
Assuming that there are concentrated extinctions and deep burials, then the movement of the plates needs to be sudden, and the animals are buried abruptly like kneading dough. Slow crustal movement only causes the corpse to decay and eventually become fossilized bones, while ** and volcanoes can only cause local catastrophism. However, the current geological discoveries suggest that the plates are very stable after their own organisms, and there are no global sudden movements, but only slow crustal movements. When did there be such a huge force? It is also difficult to explain at the moment.
From various analyses of the causes of oil, questioning the traditional theory that oil evolved from the decay of animals, we can't help but think again about the origin of life.
The above evidence and findings are almost all a great impact on our "common sense" without doubt. Since scientific common sense is problematic, how far is the "truth of the universe" that human beings have always thought they have known from the real truth of the universe?
In fact, the logical basis of science now belongs to the inductive method. In other words, through continuous observation, a large number of observations are gathered, and then the doctrine is established. Once a doctrine is established, it must be proved by more rigorous experiments, and when an inexplicable illustration is found, the doctrine is no longer valid, and it must be returned to a new hypothesis. In order to become a law, it is even more rigorous, and after a long period of research to confirm that there is no problem with this doctrine, and after more careful verification, it must be logically rigorous enough to explain most of the relevant cases before it can become a law. In the same way, if there are counterexamples or logical flaws, they must also be returned to the doctrinal stage and re-examined.
Therefore, we know that although most scientists currently admit the theory of evolution, it is only a doctrine after all, and there are still many loopholes in logic, and serious scientists have reservations about this theory. About where humans came from? What is the origin of life? This is the most important and serious question in all of scientific research. It is questionable and incorrect to use a doctrine that has not yet been established as a textbook.
And the archaeological evidence that continues to be discovered is a powerful counter-proof to the theory of evolution. If a single counter-proof is enough to overturn the logical basis of evolution, in the face of so many examples, do we still think that they are just accidental discoveries?
In today's society, many people think about how to achieve better competitiveness in order to strive for better career achievements and a happy life. Vaguely, one of the assumptions of Darwinian evolution, survival of the fittest, has become the norm for people to do things. However, when we find that Darwin's doctrine has great loopholes, and even serious errors, we think about it, is there a problem with the competitive spirit that many people emphasize? Perhaps the rules of the universe are not only not competing with each other, but rather helping each other and accepting each other!
I believe you are no stranger to the term "prehistoric civilization", we have introduced many examples of human prehistoric life in the previous section, and in the next chapter, we will look at some evidence of prehistoric civilizations that scientists have found.
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