[killJOY]

Several sources put worldwide consumption of oil at 85,000 kb/d.

At 42 US gallons per barrel, that's approximately 3.5 billion gallons a day.


How much is that?


I've just read that the Canadian portion of Niagara (Horseshoe Falls) puts out over 500,000 gallons per second of water. Calculate . . . crunch. crunch. . . .

Watch this for about two hours:





...and there's your image of how much oil the world uses a day.

[peaker_2005]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('killJOY', 'S')everal sources put worldwide consumption of oil at 85,000 kb/d.

At 42 US gallons per barrel, that's approximately 3.5 billion gallons a day.


How much is that?


I've just read that the Canadian portion of Niagara (Horseshoe Falls) puts out over 500,000 gallons per second of water. Calculate . . . crunch. crunch. . . .

Watch this for about two hours:





...and there's your image of how much oil the world uses a day.

[eric_b]

Try these visualizations out...

First I'm going to round up the daily global consumption to 85 million barrels per day.

Consider your average US football field, including end zones - 360 x 160 feet.

Next, convert daily consumption to cubic feet:
85,000,000 (barrels) * 5.6146 (barrels to cubic feet conversion) = 477,241,000 (cubic feet of oil consumed per day)

Now divide this by the number of cubic feet to fill a football field to 1 foot, eg. 360X160 (57,600) and you get 8285 feet.

So, every day, the world consumes what amounts to a column of oil the dimensions of a football
field over 8200 feet (> 1.5 miles) high.

Or, imagine a square a mile on a side - one square mile. This would be filled to a height of
17 feet to equal global daily consumption of oil.

Simmons and Co. calculated the annual global consumption of oil, in 1997, amounted to over 1 cubic mile.
Now that volume is closer to 1.1-1.2 cubic miles per year. And growing.

For you metric weenies, the daily global oil munch amounts to the area of a soccer field (100x64 meters)
filled to over 2,000 meters (over 2 kilometers tall).

Gulp.

[SmokinJuan]

Now all we need to do is photoshop that picture and we've got ourselves an ad campeign. I'd do it myself, but I'm going back to bed.

[peaker_2005]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('eric_b', 'T')ry these visualizations out...

First I'm going to round of up the daily global consumption to 85 million barrels per day.

Consider you average US football field, including end zones - 360 x 160 feet.

Next, convert daily consumption to cubic feet:
85,000,000 (barrels) * 5.6146 (barrels to cubic feet conversion) = 477,241,000 (cubic feet of oil consumed per day)

Now divide this by the number of cubic feet to fill a football field to 1 foot, eg. 360X160 (57,600) and you get 8285 feet.

So, every day, the world consumes what amounts to a column of oil the dimensions of a football
field over 8200 feet (> 1.5 miles) high.

Or, imagine a square a mile on a side. This would be filled to a height of 17 feet to equal global daily consumption of oil.

Simmons and Co. calculated the annual global consumption of oil, in 1997, amounted to over 1 cubic
mile per year. Now that volume is closer to 1.1-1.2 cubic miles per year. And growing.

For you metric weenies, the daily global oil munch amounts to the area of a soccer field (100x64 meters)
filled to over 2,000 meters (over 2 kilometers tall).

Gulp.

[turmoil]

lol, no wonder we're running out.

Thanks for the numbers guys.

[BenjaminAdam]

If you wanted to see a years worth, just watch that waterfall for 24 hours a day for a month! (1,303,050,000,000 gallons per year)

Or watch it 24/7 for over 2 1/2 years for approximately all the oil we've used so far... that oil is GONE.