The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth Of Fossil Fuels Paperback – 4 Oct. 2013

Brilliant book. Strong science. This sRiyer was a great thinker. Logical and independent. Inspiring book.

Truly romantic science. Big general hypothesis and a lot of facts to support it. Great reading.

Gold published his theory from russian papers after the russuans presented their more correct theory in Santa Fe in 1995, 4 years before he published this book.. The correct theory is in Myths Lies and Oil Wars. "Gold clamed the deep origins of hydrocarbons thesis had been uniquuely his own." "Gold apparently had little knowledge of hydrocarbon geochemistry and claimed, among other things, that there existed large quantities of methane in the Earth at depths of the mantle." "Methane at pressures of the mantle of the Earth will decompose to evolve [to] octane, diesel oil, heavy lubricating oils, alkylbenzenes and the compounds found in natural petroleum."

Excellent product, exactly what I was wanting

With Thomas Gold, the reader realises how exciting the world is. Here we have an author that makes the reader feel that he can explain the world to him. The major target here is the conventional idea that oil is from fossils but why are we no nearer the end of it if so? The Greens say we are but they were seriously saying that we would run out of fuel in 30 years 40 years ago.We have increased our usage of oil fuel since then and lately India and China have set out to refute the old Green idea of the 1960s that their large populations could not surpass 1960s USA standards and bear in mind that the world population has doubled since the 1960s. If oil flows from the excretions of living microbes, as Gold says, then the abundance of oil that we have will be explained. However, even if the book is false in its thesis, the exciting way it opens up the topic to the reader is going to be a boon nevertheless.

Worth a read for sure. It presents some very interesting, non-mainstream, ideas and I think it does well at making a convincing argument. It has definitely opened my mind to other possibilities.

I think this is a very important book. Its a shame that he passed away in 2004. Since now we see data coming in from Titan showing Hydrocarbon seas. I think he's concept will given time be found to be right. In the USSR these theories are taken seriously, not surprisingly they are the number one oil producers in the world now. The West keeps ignoring the evidence and the author presents his cases. One of the most interesting books, I read this one after Paul Davies "Origin of Life" and they both complement one another. Hopefully more deep drilling will be done. I found his theories on Earthquakes, metals, and diamonds very interesting as well and they do seem to make sense.

I have known Dr. Gold for approximately 20 years. During this time I have written several articles for newsstand periodicals based on his work and writings. My most recent series of articles provides a discussion of how The Deep Hot Biosphere furthers the a-biogenic theory of planetary hydrocarbon formation (i.e. petroleum, coal and methane). Since publication of my articles, I have been overwelmed by reader contacts providing everything from clarifications to praise. I went to great pains to reduce the high science presented by Dr. Gold into a practical discussion regarding the abundance of the world's hydrocarbon energy supplies : There is alot more available than originally/continuously promoted by politicians, environmentalists and petroleum geologists; all of whom have relied on the BIOgenic theory of the 1870's era. Although seemingly unrelated to geopolitics, I encourage readers of all walks and persuasions to read The Deep Hot Biosphere. For those interested in my articles, please start with my October 1999 article The Origins of Oil, in Today's SUV magazine (A USA based publication)

What if this book is factual? What if oil is actually produced by the planet? How does anyone actually know? All that oil is coming from somewhere. Maybe we will never run out of oil. Oil was supposed to be gone before WW1, then by the late twenties, then it appeared we would be out of oil in the seventies, eighties, nineties,etc. So where does it come from? Gold writes a very good story here and it cannot be dismissed so easily as some kind of fantasy. He goes into a lot of detail of the earth and where this oil may be coming from and how it is formed. A well written book that is worth a read. When I finished the book I thought of all the things we do not know about the planet. Keep an open mind when reading this book.

Auf das Buch wurde ich durch den – kürzlich verstorbenen, sehr verdienten – Architekten K. Fischer aufmerksam. Seine Frage an den dt. Vorstand eines der großen Ölkonzerne, was er „als kleiner Architekt den Häuslbauern sagen soll, wenn sie KEINE Ölheizung mehr einzubauen wünschen“, nachdem er dieses Buch gelesen und erfahren hatte, daß sich die Kohlenstoff-Brennstoffe (Öl, Gas, Kohle!) laufend ergänzen und eben nicht das Umwand-lungs-Produkt vorzeitlicher Biosphäre auf der Erdoberfläche sind, war die: Es liegt auf meinen Nachtkästchen – und alles was Gold schrieb ist richtig. ... aber die „Kommunikations-politik“ wird in den USA gemacht.Auf gut Deutsch: es gibt keine Knappheit an den Energie-Rohstoffen.Die Russen haben das schon vor etlichen Jahrzehnten bemerkt, als sie sibirische leergepumpte Gasfelder nach einigen Jahren bei Nachschau wieder gefüllt vorfanden.Golds Theorie ist bestechend – und überzeugend, weil sie jene nicht erklärbaren Paradoxien der heute immer noch verbreiteten Lehrmeinung, daß sich die Kohlenwasserstoffe aus den Oberflächen-Urwäldern und sonstigen Biosphärenprodukten gebildet hätten erklärt, und auch, daß die chemisch in einer Sauerstoff-reichen Atmosphäre gar nicht so verlaufende Anreiche-rung von Wasserstoff am Kohlenstoff-Atom möglich ist und nur in den tiefen Schichten der Erde erklärbar sei. Nach geltender Erfahrung verlauft der Umwandlungsprozeß nämlich gegenteilig: Oxydation des Kohlenstoffs – und damit zu CO2, einem „stabilen“ Endprodukt, das für unsere Energiegewinnung überdies unbrauchbar wäre.Gold erklärte auch, daß solche Ansichten bis dato von keinem wissenschaftlichen Journal publiziert worden sei, und er nur deshalb der „damnatio memoriae“ entgangen war, weil er auf dem Gebiet der Astrophysik sich schon einen Namen gemacht hatte.Das Buch ist jedenfalls „ein Hammer“! – Das wissen die Distributoren inzwischen auch, denn die deutsche Übersetzung dieses Werkes kostet inzwischen ca. 400,- Euro, womit es praktisch am Markt nicht existiert. Nun, Gottseidank, ist die englische Ausgabe mit einem üblichen Preis von knapp 20,- € zu haben, und wer hinreichend die Sprache versteht, dem kann man das Buch nur wärmstens empfehlen.Allerdings wird mit diesem Wissen der ohnmächtige Zorn über die total verblödete Energiewende-Politik kaum noch zu ertragen.DI Gerhoch Reisegger

故トーマスゴールド氏の画期的新説2つが書かれている。１）地下深層ガス説（石油、天然ガスの大半は惑星起源）２）地底高熱生物圏が生命の起源１）地下深層ガス説は古くからある無機起源説（生物起源説の対極にある）の一つであるが、トーマスゴールドは惑星物理学の立場から炭化水素ガス（石油や天然ガスの始原）が惑星起源であることを示した。さらに、自説を証明するためにスウェーデンのシルヤン隕石跡で、生物起源ではあり得ない堆積層の無い花崗岩地帯の深層、地下6000mの試掘を行った。商業生産には至らなかったが、天然ガスの発見と原油を含む磁鉄鉱ペーストが発見された。２）シルヤン隕石跡で回収された磁鉄鉱ペーストの分析から、微生物の痕跡が見つかったことから、地底の高温熱源地帯に微生物圏があるとの仮説を立てた。その後、高温の地底、深海底の熱水鉱床の地下に微生物圏があることが発見された。ここから、海水や酸素に依存しない微生物が生命起源との仮説を提唱したのが本書である。■トーマスゴールドは惑星物理学の立場から・・・木星やその衛星に大量のメタン（天然ガス）が存在する。これは宇宙では珍しいことではない。それなのに、地球だけメタンが生物起源なのか？真実は、地球のメタンも、大半が惑星起源であると、古くからありながら打ち捨てられていた無機起源説を再提唱した。現在では、無機起源の『非在来型天然ガス』という用語も使われている。深海底で発見されたメタンハイドレートも無機起源の『非在来型天然ガス』と考えられている。従来の常識を覆す、画期的な内容が本書である。故トーマスゴールド氏の業績に感謝をこめて。

You can learn a lot from certain atheists. I'm not being facetious. Jesse Ventura is a good example because the men behind the curtains are not invisible to him. Thomas Gold is another good example of the fact that while an atheist may be tragically blind in one category of life, it does not necessarily mean unbelief is blind in every category.I came of age in the 1970's, and I remember when it was widely reported that the global supply of crude oil would be exhausted in just a matter of decades. Gold points out that this dire prediction failed to materialize because the mainstream scientific assumptions that undergirded that idea are flawed. Gold refutes the common belief that petroleum is of biogenic origin, but is instead derived from the initial materials that formed the earth. In other words, there's a domain of life down deep that produces oil and gas - it did not come from the remains of expired surface life that sank down under. Of course, if this theory of Gold (and the Russian researchers he mentioned in the book) is correct, the practical ramifications transcend the borders of science. If the deep, hot biosphere becomes an accepted reality, industrial searches for earth resources will gratefully adapt, and indeed, at least some momentum in that awakening commercial mode has already begun.Along with Hermann Bondi in another book, Gold put forth the steady-state theory of the universe which sees Big Bangs as cyclical events that have always existed and always will. Of course, the need for a Creator is neatly dismissed by the steady-state theory. Gold also understands that the process of photosynthesis is too complex a process to have evolved by random mutation and natural selection among the complex life forms known on the surface of our planet. He clearly views the thesis of this book as being the best solution to that issue. The needed long ages of developmental evolution could have brewed underfoot long before there was a foot above. In a discussion of autocatalytic molecules inhabiting the subsurface of the earth, Gold attempts to rescue random chance from the inescapable dungeon of statistical improbability. Well, that arrow missed.His chapter nine is about the origin of life. I know, I know, an atheist on the origin of life, but just wait. Some people evidently believe that panspermia means that sentient aliens intentionally seeded our planet with life from their spaceships or from some other unknown mode of interplanetary travel. I did not expect Gold to support such a dubious notion, and I was not disappointed. The panspermia Gold postulates is interplanetary microbial infection at random and by meteorites. And it was the deep, hot biosphere that was infected and evolved, not surface life. For Gold, the simpler life forms of the deep could much better evolve and develop with out direction and design. Only later could surface life develop - long after the simpler forms had gotten the evolutionary ball rolling.These are not just wild ideas on Gold's part. He presents good logic and evidence to support all that he says short of his underlying left-turn assumption that there is no Creator. The next time I hear the term fossil fuels, I'll know better than to swallow that meme thanks to Gold. He is, I believe, right about the origin of oil and gas in one breath, despite the atheism of his next breath. This book is not about his unbelief, and since it is not, but is instead a well written book explaining a "deep" alternative of the origin of oil and various gases, I gave it 5 stars.

Gold vertritt die These, dass es a) Öle und Steinkohle seit Anbeginn in Hülle und Fülle gibt und weiterhin geben wird, b) daß die Herkunft dieser Kohlenwasserstoffe nichts mit oberflächlichen Lebensformen zu tun hat,c) daß bis in große Tiefen in unserer Erdkruste Leben existiert, das anders funktioniert als auf der Oberfläche.Dabei argumentiert er einerseits klar und leicht verständlich, andererseits in bester wissenschaftlichen Weise klar strukturiert in Hypothese mit folgender Beweisführung.Das führt zu einem ungewohnt dünnen aber gehaltvollen Buch, das anregend zu lesen ist, und aufgrund der klaren Struktur seiner Argumentation sachlich auch nachvollziehbar und mit etwas Zusatzaufwand auch überprüfbar ist.Gold stellt seine Theorie überzeugend vor.