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What is the percentage of oil to water When all is said and done?
Posted on 5/17/10 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 5/17/10 at 3:17 pm
From GulfBase.org
The basin contains a volume of 2,434,000 cubic kilometers of water (6.43 * 1017 or 643 quadrillion gallons).
Can someone help me with this.
The basin contains a volume of 2,434,000 cubic kilometers of water (6.43 * 1017 or 643 quadrillion gallons).
Can someone help me with this.
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Posted on 5/17/10 at 3:52 pm to TIGER2
Youre going to have to know how much oil is spilled.
Posted on 5/17/10 at 4:00 pm to LEASTBAY
Here it is for Ixtapa or whatever that spilled 140 million gallons
2.177e^-10 percent
2.177e^-10 percent
Posted on 5/17/10 at 4:02 pm to TIGER2
Are you seriously going to try and argue that this is a drop in the bucket?
Posted on 5/17/10 at 4:03 pm to Indiana Tiger
mother nature will heal herself when it is all said and done. Of course that means more of the bluewater issues. If this thing gets into the estuaries and the marshes, we's in trouble.
Posted on 5/17/10 at 4:04 pm to Indiana Tiger
it's a tiny number but it's going to hurt
ETA:
1 drop of water in a 5 gallon bucket = .00026%
ETA:
1 drop of water in a 5 gallon bucket = .00026%
This post was edited on 5/17/10 at 4:12 pm
Posted on 5/17/10 at 4:09 pm to halleburton
quote:
did i say anything like that?
Did I reply to you?
Posted on 5/17/10 at 4:11 pm to Indiana Tiger
quote:
Are you seriously going to try and argue that this is a drop in the bucket?
No,just the amount of water out there is incomprehensibly. This spill changes everything.
Posted on 5/17/10 at 4:11 pm to back9Tiger
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If this thing gets into the estuaries and the marshes, we's in trouble.
If it starts killing the coral reefs we're also in trouble.
Deep Sea Oil Plumes, Dispersants, endanger reefs
This post was edited on 5/17/10 at 4:30 pm
Posted on 5/17/10 at 4:45 pm to Indiana Tiger
Yeah it would suck to see this bang up the keys and the reefs but this may be an equal opportunity distaster and not just a pick on the central gulf coast. I'm still worn out from Katrina.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 6:45 am to TIGER2
1 quart of motor oil can contaminate (ie make it toxic to aquatic life) 250,000 gallons of water.
Source
This link is one of many.
So 1 gallon of crude can contaminate 1,000,000 gallons of water. 1,000,000 gallons of crude contaminates 1x10E12 gallons of water. I think that;s a quadrillion gallons (!!), or a thousand trillion but its early and I haven't had my coffee yet. It's possible to convert that to cubic feet and then work from that. I'll leave that for someone else because I need to go to work.
Whatever the percentage is, it's not good for anything living in the water in that area.
Source
This link is one of many.
So 1 gallon of crude can contaminate 1,000,000 gallons of water. 1,000,000 gallons of crude contaminates 1x10E12 gallons of water. I think that;s a quadrillion gallons (!!), or a thousand trillion but its early and I haven't had my coffee yet. It's possible to convert that to cubic feet and then work from that. I'll leave that for someone else because I need to go to work.
Whatever the percentage is, it's not good for anything living in the water in that area.
Posted on 5/18/10 at 10:06 am to TIGER2
quote:
What is the percentage of oil to water When all is said and done
Not sure this is a relevant question. The more relevant question would seem to be, what is the concentration of oil in the water in which environmentally and commercially vulnerable systems exist?
Posted on 5/18/10 at 10:44 am to WNCTiger
1 quart of used motor oil is not the same as a quart of crude. FWIW I can't find how much water a quart/barrel of oil contaiminates. I guess it isn't really known because not all oil is created equal
Posted on 5/18/10 at 12:07 pm to Volvagia
the bp a-hole said this a tiny spill relative to the size of the ocean. That mentality is why this happened. He could give a shite.
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