Or how I came to be unfond of Normal 0 Omelettes
Lately I have had insomnia real bad and I am now beginning to have the rambling thoughts of a potential mad-man (Defined as "A Man that is very Angry at a person or persons, especially any person that fails to research a political position in a socio-economic-environmental and political climate completely, resulting in higher cost to the citizens, lower efficiency in government and/or the private sector and less reliability of the products and/or services offered)
That said: I have been contemplating the Dinosaurs. These beasts would have had to have been about 50 times more greasy than the typical lizard of today, body mass differential considered. I find that to be unlikely. I would like to propose an experiment to anyone so inclined.
1. Take a 55 Gallon drum fill it with live lizards from the yard. reseal it every day and continue to add lizards until the drum is full. Close it tightly and set it outside in the sun.
2. Weigh the Drum daily and record the weight
3. Reopen the drum in 1 year and determine how much oil is in the drum use measuring devices for liquid measure.
4. Determine how much oil per pound was produced.
5. determine the amount of oil produced in the last 100 years and add to the the estimates of reserves still available.
6. Determine how many dinosaurs it would have taken to produce that much oil
7. Repeat steps 1 thru 6 for coal
8 after you know an solid approximation of how many dinosaurs it would take compare their carbon footprint to mankind's. you will find Man does not come close.
9. What this really proves is that Oil and Coal and Natural Gas are naturally Normal 0 occurring components of the earth's crust just as oceans are a part of the earth's surface.
10. You will also find that there is an extreme deficit in oil produced from fossils of organic matter and the amount of oil we have already used and how much is estimated to still be in the ground.
11. I look forward to oil being discovered om the moon, If I am right it should be there.
My late father-in-law was an oil explorer and a PHD in Oil Exploration. He marveled at my theories and he said I am closer to the truth than I know. I was in his office one day and look at a large relief man on his wall...He was working at his computer. When he spoke he asked my what I thought......I pointed to the map (at a spot I had been staring at for a few minutes) I said put it here. He did. It was the best producer he had ever found. He was nevr convinced that I was going on educated guts. it was a deep depression surrounded by high mountains, I was lkooking for oil so it only made sense that oil, being a liquid, would seep to the lowest lever and akll the mountains around were granite (an almost impervious rock) Just made sense to me.
The poor man spent thousands getting over educated including he was a Rhodes Scholar. Then I come along with my lowly BSEE from a small Midwestern University and bada bing bada bang!
I didn't tell him I use the same maps in my engineering work.
JD
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