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Essential Element of Crude Oil Just Discovered on Mars Source:  NASA image of Mars Where There Is Oil, There Could be Life Two astrobiologists have found the basic elements of oil on Mars.  Jacob Heinz of Berlin's Technische Universität and Dirk Schulze-Makuch of Washington State University in Saint Louis have found organic compounds called "thiophenes" that are present in crude oil and coal on Earth.  The thiophenes were discovered in dried mud that NASA's Curiosity Rover dug up in Mars' Gale Crater. This is a remarkable scientific discovery that raises the intriguing question, once again, about life existing on Mars. Oil and Life Where there is oil, there many times is life.  The issue now confronting the scientists is how the thiophenes on Mars were created.  Most often  the creation of thiophenes is a "biotic" process that involves living elements.  If that is the case, according to scientist Schulze-Makuch, "there was ea...

Oil Production Center of World Going Solar Source:  Noor Abu Dhabi Big Solar Projects Underway and More Planned The United Arab Emirates just turned on the largest, single solar farm in the world.  It's called Noor Abu Dhabi.  The farm has 3.2 million solar panels, generates 1.18 GW of electricity and can supply electricity to 90,000 people.  This facility will contribute to a cleaner UAE environment and enable the exportation of more oil globally. Ironic but Promising Renewable, Green Energy It is ironic that in the Middle East, the global center of oil production, big investments are being made by the UAE and others to launch huge solar energy farms.  Noor Abu Dhabi is clean, green, sustainable and offsets one million metric tons of emissions.  That is the equivalent of taking 200,000 cars off the road. Solar Energy Races Abu Dhabi just announced another, bigger solar project of 2 GW that it's going to develop.  And Saudi Arabia has pl...