Topic: Oil and Lightning
1. Massive Oil formed in Tethys Sea -- Geology
2. Tethys Sea -- Warm Shallow Tropical Sea around time of dinoes, breakup of Pangea.
3. Shallow Warm waters = life plentiful.
4. Oil formed of Biological Decay
5. No microbe found to produce hydrocarbons heavier than Methane - CH4 (simplest hydrocarbon)
--- Exception = heavy Hydrocarbonols(form of alcohol), but in VERY low levels, no were near enough to account for world's oil.
6. Miller-Urey Experiment makes the most complex of chemicals with electrical discharges --- http://www.chem.duke.edu/~jds/cruise_chem/Exobiology/miller.html
7. Warm Tropical Waters = BIIIG Thunderstorms and hurricanes.
8. Hurricanes not so much lightning in core, but in outer rain bands plentiful.
9. Fuel Cell Cycle:
Follow Counter Clockwise (forum unforgiving on display and I don't much like ASCII art)
H