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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  6/27/2005 04:56 PM, you wrote:
> The Overstory #156 - Permaculture Principles
> By David Holmgren
>
> http://www.agroforestry.net/overstory/ovbook.html
>
> Principle 2: CATCH AND STORE ENERGY
> We live in a world of unprecedented wealth resulting from the harvesting
> of the enormous storages of fossil fuels created by the earth over
> billions of years. We have used some of this wealth to increase our
> harvest of the Earth's renewable resources to an unsustainable degree.
> Most of the adverse impacts of this over-harvesting will show up as
> available fossil fuels decline. In financial language, we have been
> living by consuming global capital in a reckless manner that would send
> any business bankrupt.

I have to wonder where oil did come from? Lot's of dinosaurs & forests 
buried? Dinosaurs & forests under that one?  Is oil maybe something else?
A good question-

Rob

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig5/crispin8.html

>>Eugene Island is an underwater mountain located about 80 miles off the 
coast of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico. In 1973 oil was struck and 
off-shore platform Eugene 330 erected. The field began production at 15,000 
barrels a day, then gradually fell off, as is normal, to 4,000 barrels a 
day in 1989, Then came the surprise; it reversed itself and increased 
production to 13,000 barrels a day. Probable reserves have been increased 
to 400 million barrels from 60 million. The field appears to be filling 
from below and the crude coming up today is from a geological age different 
from the original crude, which leads to the speculation that the world has 
limitless supplies of petroleum<<

>>This work began about the time 3-D seismic technology was introduced to 
oil exploration. Anderson was able to stack 3D images resulting in a 4D 
image that showed the reservoir in 3 spatial dimensions and enabled 
researchers to track the movement of oil. Their most stunning find was a 
deep fault at a bottom corner of the computer scan that showed oil 
literally gushing in. "We could see the stream," says Andersen. "It wasn't 
even debated that it was happening." <<