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How long would it take to notice, say, an inch decrease? Or whatever other small unit if it's not measurable to an inch.
by rascul 9y ago
How long would it take to notice, say, an inch decrease? Or whatever other small unit if it's not measurable to an inch.
- CodesInChaos 9y agoConsumption: 7M Gallons/day = 26.5E3 m^3 / day (fed to foxconn's personal black hole) Area of Lake Michigan: 58000 km^2 = 58E9 m^2 Corresponds to 4.6E-7 m/day or about 6 years for one millimeter or about 150 years for the oddly specific 25.4mm you were asking for. If we take the 39% loss figure from the article, we get 15 years/1mm and 390 years/25.4mm.
- rascul 9y agoThanks.
- PeterStuer 9y agoSo does that mean it takes just 390 Foxconns to have the lake drop an inch each year?
- jonlucc 9y agoThe surface area of Lake Michigan is 22394 square miles according to Google, which converts to 8.99e13 square inches. If you're only looking for one inch of depth, that is 8.99e13 cubic inches. Each cubic inch is 0.00433 gallons, so the first inch of Lake Michigan is 389,267,000,000 gallons. Divide by the loss per day, in this case assuming they're consuming the entire 7 million gallons, and it will take 55609.6 days, or 152 years and change for Lake Michigan to lose 1 inch excluding other sources of loss or addition and so on.