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
On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 8:05 PM, Jones Beene jone...@pacbell.net wrote:
By not successful do you mean that the calculations do not explain
reality
very well? Should you then consider both inelastic and elastic collisions?
Thanks for yours and Abd's replies. I got the impression that the
On 06/05/2010 10:52 PM, Terry Blanton wrote:
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Mauro Lacy ma...@lacy.com.ar wrote:
Wading through the references, I've found the following paper:
A theory of mass and gravity in 4-dimensional optics
(http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0109027)
Which lays in
See:
Renegade Refiner: OSHA Says BP Has “Systemic Safety Problem”
97% of Worst Industry Violations Found at BP Refineries
By Jim Morris and M.B. Pell | May 16, 2010
http://www.publicintegrity.org/articles/entry/2085/
- Jed
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