wired and nextbigfuture Oct 25 and 26

[IntLibber]

"Yesterday's Guardian raised questions about whether oil reserves published in the past by the IEA have been inflated.

Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower

The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying."

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5953

The Guardian is a Club of Rome euroleftist fishrag that only stays in operation because it is subsidized by a profitable automotive magazine. They promote both contradictory theories promoted by the neomalthusians at CoR: Peak Oil and AGW. IPCC claims in its projections we will burn 10 times more oil in the 21st century than peak oilers say is in the ground. They both cannot be right.

[djolds1]

Humanity should rot.

We discuss science here, not a religion. If you had any decency you would stop putting any post on this site. There are plenty of religious sites to advertise your beliefs.
One more thing. To get more followers you should live by your beliefs, before you recommend them to others. "Humanity should rot" Heh.

There's nothing wrong with airing one's beliefs here IMO. Politics shows up often enough, and are definitely one component of belief. Strictly speaking however, that set of topics should migrate to the "General" sub-board (tho "News" is somewhat free-ranging as well). Beyond that, I commend this movement to our "cull the excess" friend.

I believe Stalin called such people "useful idiots".

Lenin.

[Art Carlson]

I did some digging and I found this:

http://trilogynet.net/Thomas_Gold/depth.html

Molecules that are composed of four or more atoms may possess chirality, meaning that the same arrangements of the positions of the components of the molecule can be achieved in two different ways, one being the precise mirror image of the other.[...]
The complete absence of any optical rotation at the deeper levels is itself a strong argument against a biological derivation of the oil.

It seems that the optical rotation of the molecules is 50/50 at deeper levels where temperatures are higher and bacteria cannot survive.

Exactly what you would expect no matter where the oil came from, as long as it was isolated from the biosphere for a long time (e.g. 100,000 years). There is a non-biological process called Amino Acid Racemization that converts optically active molecules to in-active (racemic) mixtures over time.

[KitemanSA]

There's nothing wrong with airing one's beliefs here IMO.

Actually, the place where that is so is in the "General" forum. This forum (News) is supposed to be for discussion of (loosely) Polywell related news items.