2007-03-19 05:29:15 · 3 answers · asked by warning 2 in Environment
Placing it in a circle is kind of irrelevant. Considering the fact that USA's surface is about 3.7 million square miles, you can have almost 6 barrels of oil burn every day on each square mile. That is like covering the entire USA's surface with an oil layer of 1/70 inch thick, it would be like paint. Then set it on fire. I guess you can burn everything with that. Every day. Over and over again. And you still don't believe in the green house effect ?
2007-03-19 05:47:23 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 55 gal steel barrel has a diameter of roughly 2 feet, so it would be a circular ring of a perimeter of 44 million feet, or about 8,333 miles. That's a diameter of 2,652 miles, nearly the size of the United States.
If we put all of them together in a circular area, then because the packing efficiency is roughly 90%, the area of the circle would be equivalent to that of 24.444,444 barrels, so roughly the diameter of the circle would be 9,888 feet, or about 1.87 miles.
2007-03-19 12:48:59 · answer #2 · answered by Scythian1950 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It would be 22 million barrels round.
2007-03-19 12:33:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋