Facetiously, I was wondering how a naive engineer might evaluate the Gulf oil catastrophe:
Back of the envelope calculations: Gulf volume is 6.43 x 10^17 gallons Oil spill volume is 70 x 10^6 gallons so far This comes out to 1 drop of oil per 1,000 gallons of water (much more that I thought it would be, actually). A simple analysis would show that is a trivial amount not worth bothering about :-) . Hoyt Stearns Scottsdale, Arizona US
