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According to your math, homes in the US waste the energy equivalent of over 1,300 gulf oil spills every year. Ouch...
by jheitzeb 16y ago
According to your math, homes in the US waste the energy equivalent of over 1,300 gulf oil spills every year. Ouch...
- jbooth 16y agoAnd for bonus points, although I haven't verified, he's probably measuring total energy content of that oil, not the amount we can successfully harness using mechanical means.
- scottcase1998 16y agoYep - fun with math! Gallons of oil to barrels of oil to MMBTU's per barrel to MMBTU's per house per year (source energy vs. site energy). We totally geeked out on this. Minus points though for skipping the energy content in the natural gas that's leaking out of the well (apparently it's half and half). But our algebra skills reached a limit at some point once we felt like the point was made...