Dear Pierre,
Here is another story from 'The Age' in Melbourne that suggests a
further doubling to the amount of oil leaked each day to 40 000
barrels (6 000 000 litres or 6 megalitres). See http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/bp-chief-summoned-as-us-doubles-oil-leak-estimate-20100611-y1wt.html
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On 2010/06/17, at 00:47 , Pierre Abbat wrote:
On Tuesday 15 June 2010 19:27:34 John M. Steele wrote:
Yes, although Pat and some others prefer to visualize it as 10 ML.
Whatever works best for you, I guess. :)
My apartment building (four apartments) is about 1 ML, so I
visualize it that
way. But if I were to explain it to someone who doesn't live here,
I'd say a
megaliter is a ten-meter cube.
I heard someone on NPR this morning trying to calculate the volume,
saying a
barrel is 55 gallons. He's thinking of the 200-liter drum, not the oil
barrel. I also heard a figure of 10,000 tons per day, which is
fairly close
to the 10 ML/d figure, given the density of oil and the <1 sig fig.
Pierre
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