[glgene]

The way I figure it, the Gulf oil spill is spewing out 86,400 barrels per day. That's pretty close to the now-scientific estimate of 100,000 barrels per day. And to think the BP at first said it was somewhere between only 1,000 to 5,000 barrels per day!

The experts should have simply called me, and I would have given them the "correct" number weeks ago.

Here's my calculation (from my live TV observance (CNBC New) of the oil spill: It appears to me (eyeball observation), that it's spewing one (1) barrel per second. Look for yourself.

1 barrel per sec. = 60 barrels per minute ,
which equals 3,600 barrels per hour (60x60),
which equals 86,400 barrles per 24-hour period (3600x24)

Thus, "the Gene Machine non-Scientific System" calls it at 86,400 barrels per day.

Would someone at BP, or CNBC, or the White House, or ???, simply send me a check for my non-scientific intelligence??? Napoleon Hill, author of 'Think and Grow Rich,' would be proud of my stance on ...."send me the money." I'm thinking positively!


The Gene Machine

[Lou Card]

You need to send your bill to Chainy

[bkcunningham1]

Not trying to minimize the Gulf oil accident, but to put it in another perspective. In 38 seconds the Mississippi River dumps as much clean water into the Gulf of Mexico as the BP oil "spill" (I don't like calling it a "spill") has done in two months.

According to Mississippi River Resources: At Lake Itasca, the average flow rate (of the Mississippi River) is 6 cubic feet per second.
At Upper St. Anthony's Falls, the northernmost Lock and Dam, the average flow rate is 12,000 cubic ft/second.
At New Orleans, the average flow rate is 600,000 cubic feet per second.
There are 7.489 gallons of water in a cubic foot. One cubic foot of water weighs 65.4 pounds. A 48 foot semi-truck trailer is a 3,600 cu. ft. container. At Itasca, it would take 10 minutes for one semi-trailer of water to flow out of the lake into the Mississippi. At St. Anthony Falls, the equivalent of 3 semi-trailers full of water go over the falls every second. At New Orleans, the equivalent of 166 semi-trailers of water flow past Algiers Point each second.

There's an intersting story linked below from a Louisiana newspaper that puts the spill in perspective as far as the amount of oil coming from the ocean floor compared to the size of the Gulf. The Associated Press story also puts another perspective on the financial cost of gasoline, BP's lobbying efforts in DC and the average price of gas.

http://www.caleuche.com/River/RiverFacts.htm

http://www.thetowntalk.com/article/2...numerical-size