A visual for what 25,000 barrels of Oil a Day looks like

[Mira]

Estimates of how much of BP's oil is gushing into the gulf each day range from 25,000 to 40,000 barrels' worth a day. Here's what the low end of that looks like stacked to the heavens.

The animation was made using the Unreal Development Kit,

(Unreal® Development Kit is the free version of the award-winning Unreal® Engine 3, the software development framework used to create computer and video games, 3D simulations, TV shows, films and more.)

and simulates 25,000 barrels stacked 15,000 feet into the air, then collapsing group by group.

All of that. Full of oil. Every day


http://gizmodo.com/5566486/what-25000-oil-barrels-looks-like

[me b zola]

1. Did you intend for the animation to be showing in your post? n/t

[Mira]

3. One has to click on the link

it's the only way I knew to post it.
I can be really inept about these things.

Does that answer your question, and isn't it an astonishing way to depict it?

[Poll_Blind]

2. That was cooler and a lot creepier than I imagined it would be.

PB

[Webster Green]

4. That was really well done.

Amazing! :thumbsup:

[Canuckistanian]

5. It comes apart like the WTC towers

Wow.

[krispos42]

6. I calculated that the average single-family house holds about 3,100 barrels of crude

So that's about 8 houses a day filled floor-to-ceiling with crude.

[Posteritatis]

7. Given the context that certainly lines up with the original meaning of the term "awesome." (nt)

[thereismore]

8. Stupid. No reference. nt

[intheflow]

9. Great visual, Mira!

Very striking, and also horrifying. I kind of wish they'd stacked it over Manhattan, L.A. or Chicago so people would be able to judge how much land mass the fallen barrels covered, too.

[G_j]

10. btw: estimate raised to 35,000-60,000 barrels a day

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4428426

Oil estimate raised to 35,000-60,000 barrels a day

Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Government officials Tuesday increased the estimate of oil flowing into the Gulf to between 35,000 and 60,000 barrels (1.5 million to 2.5 million gallons) per day, up to 50 percent more than previously estimated.

The government's previous estimate, issued last week, was 20,000 to 40,000 barrels per day. The change was "based on updated information and scientific assessments," and was reached by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar, and Chair of the National Incident Command's Flow Rate Technical Group Marcia McNutt, the Deepwater Horizon Incident Joint Information Center said.

"The improved estimate is based on more and better data that is now available and that helps increase the scientific confidence in the accuracy of the estimate," it said.

..more..

[Greyskye]

11. Impressive. Helped put it in context for my gamer son.

And for me as well. Holy crap. :wow:

[DLnyc]

12. very cool

but 25,000 barrels of oil in pallets 5 by 5 would be 1000 pallets. unless barrels are 15 feet high, I don't get how that would be 15,000 feet ??