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To: macquire

Unfortunately its not all in one great big cube. Its spread over hundreds of miles of beach, wetlands, and water surface.

But you’re the expert. This isn’t a problem, just let it keep spewing. no harm no foul.


67 posted on 07/14/2010 6:55:41 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

The concise Brittanica Encyclopedia estimates the surface of the Gulf of Mexico to be 1,550,000 km2 that is 1,550,000,000,000 m2 e maximum depth of the Gulf is 5203 m.
The average depth is somwhere between 0 and that value. I guess 1/4 the maximum depth (because it gave me an almost round number) of 1300 m. Multiplying 1,550,000,000,000 m2 x 1300m = 2.015 x 10 E 15 m3 or 5.3 X 10 E 17 USGallons (give or take 1223gallons) or about 650 Quadrillion gallons (650,000,000,000,000,000). The leak so far is 75,000 X 42 X 85 = 267,750,000 gallons or said another way, just 2.7 parts per 6,500,000,000 (six point five BILLION) .....Oil isn’t considered toxic until it reaches 10 parts per million.


72 posted on 07/14/2010 7:06:37 AM PDT by macquire
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