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Update: Sinkhole 52,000 gallons mystery crude oil collected, shocking growth exposed | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 6139196  United States10/22/2012 01:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25870406 United States10/22/2012 01:48 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | just did some math did you know that 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas all exploding at once would generate combustion energy that of 133~BILLION cubic meters x 39 Megajoules so= 5187000000000 megajoules of energy..... hahahahahhaahahhaahhahhahah biggest boom of our lives. |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 6139196 United States10/22/2012 01:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | just did some math did you know that 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas all exploding at once would generate combustion energy that of 133~BILLION cubic meters x 39 Megajoules so= Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25870406 5187000000000 megajoules of energy..... hahahahahhaahahhaahhahhahah biggest boom of our lives. You sure? 5.187 TRILLION megajoules or 5.18700 x 10(18)? Aren't we talking end of the planet at that point? We'd be talking bigger than this, right? [link to en.wikipedia.org] |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25870406 United States10/22/2012 01:56 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | just did some math did you know that 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas all exploding at once would generate combustion energy that of 133~BILLION cubic meters x 39 Megajoules so= Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25870406 5187000000000 megajoules of energy..... hahahahahhaahahhaahhahhahah biggest boom of our lives. You sure? 5.187 TRILLION megajoules or 5.18700 x 10(18)? Aren't we talking end of the planet at that point? We'd be talking bigger than this, right? [link to en.wikipedia.org] 5 trillion I think I added a few too many 000's |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25870406 United States10/22/2012 01:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | But yea, it would be bigger than any nuke we have ever detonated I believe. Tsar bomb is the biggest at 200 MT correct? Lets find out what that would do.. [link to en.wikipedia.org] ANd i'm only talking about the natural gas, what about the methane and the oil? |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 6139196 United States10/22/2012 01:59 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | just did some math did you know that 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas all exploding at once would generate combustion energy that of 133~BILLION cubic meters x 39 Megajoules so= Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25870406 5187000000000 megajoules of energy..... hahahahahhaahahhaahhahhahah biggest boom of our lives. You sure? 5.187 TRILLION megajoules or 5.18700 x 10(18)? Aren't we talking end of the planet at that point? We'd be talking bigger than this, right? [link to en.wikipedia.org] 1 Gigaton of TNT = 4.184×10(18) J But you're talking on the order of over a million times that (megajoules)? Me thinks your calculations may be a tad off. At least I hope so. Is there a math whiz in the house? |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 6139196 United States10/22/2012 02:01 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | just did some math did you know that 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas all exploding at once would generate combustion energy that of 133~BILLION cubic meters x 39 Megajoules so= Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25870406 5187000000000 megajoules of energy..... hahahahahhaahahhaahhahhahah biggest boom of our lives. You sure? 5.187 TRILLION megajoules or 5.18700 x 10(18)? Aren't we talking end of the planet at that point? We'd be talking bigger than this, right? [link to en.wikipedia.org] 5 trillion I think I added a few too many 000's Oh that's good. I feel much better now. So basically we'll only see the bottom half of the US blown up instead of the entire hemisphere? |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25870406 United States10/22/2012 02:02 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | just did some math did you know that 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas all exploding at once would generate combustion energy that of 133~BILLION cubic meters x 39 Megajoules so= Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25870406 5187000000000 megajoules of energy..... hahahahahhaahahhaahhahhahah biggest boom of our lives. You sure? 5.187 TRILLION megajoules or 5.18700 x 10(18)? Aren't we talking end of the planet at that point? We'd be talking bigger than this, right? [link to en.wikipedia.org] 1 Gigaton of TNT = 4.184×10(18) J But you're talking on the order of over a million times that (megajoules)? Me thinks your calculations may be a tad off. At least I hope so. Is there a math whiz in the house? [link to en.wikipedia.org] Do the math yourself Quantities of natural gas are measured in normal cubic meters (corresponding to 0 °C at 101.325 kPa) or in standard cubic feet (corresponding to 60 °F (16 °C) and 14.73 psia). The gross heat of combustion of one cubic meter of commercial quality natural gas is around 39 megajoules (≈10.8 kWh), but this can vary by several percent. This comes to about 49 megajoules (≈13.5 kWh) for one kg of natural gas (assuming 0.8 kg/m^3, an approximate value).[citation needed] Commercial quality is going to be much more refined then this gas so eliminate some portion for that. But I don't think that's too far off... |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25870406 United States10/22/2012 02:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And then you would have to take into account that the blast would be mostly forced upwards out of the sinkholes etc. So it wouldn't be a clean expanding explosion like a surface nuke. I wonder what the shock wave would be like and how long the estimated millions of barrels of crude would burn for. |
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| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 6139196 United States10/22/2012 02:10 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | just did some math did you know that 500 billion cubic feet of natural gas all exploding at once would generate combustion energy that of 133~BILLION cubic meters x 39 Megajoules so= Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25870406 5187000000000 megajoules of energy..... hahahahahhaahahhaahhahhahah biggest boom of our lives. You sure? 5.187 TRILLION megajoules or 5.18700 x 10(18)? Aren't we talking end of the planet at that point? We'd be talking bigger than this, right? [link to en.wikipedia.org] 1 Gigaton of TNT = 4.184×10(18) J But you're talking on the order of over a million times that (megajoules)? Me thinks your calculations may be a tad off. At least I hope so. Is there a math whiz in the house? [link to en.wikipedia.org] Do the math yourself Quantities of natural gas are measured in normal cubic meters (corresponding to 0 °C at 101.325 kPa) or in standard cubic feet (corresponding to 60 °F (16 °C) and 14.73 psia). The gross heat of combustion of one cubic meter of commercial quality natural gas is around 39 megajoules (≈10.8 kWh), but this can vary by several percent. This comes to about 49 megajoules (≈13.5 kWh) for one kg of natural gas (assuming 0.8 kg/m^3, an approximate value).[citation needed] Commercial quality is going to be much more refined then this gas so eliminate some portion for that. But I don't think that's too far off... My math skills would probably suck at 2 a.m. so not even going to attempt that right now. Good comparison chart between butane and methane: [link to www.diffen.com] |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25870406 United States10/22/2012 02:11 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to en.wikipedia.org] Read up on that, who knows how dense some areas underneath us are of methane and natural gas. I would venture to guess its not uniform but probably more like pockets of gas that get trapped due to environmental factors. |
| Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 6139196 United States10/22/2012 02:12 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1000 joules = 1 megajoule if I remember my chemistry correctly lol Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25870406 1 megajoule = 1,000 KILOjoules actually [link to www.aqua-calc.com] |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25870406 United States10/22/2012 02:18 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.kylesconverter.com] Well thats nifty, but again I believe that conversion would be for refined gas. |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 26048166 United States10/22/2012 02:23 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And then you would have to take into account that the blast would be mostly forced upwards out of the sinkholes etc. So it wouldn't be a clean expanding explosion like a surface nuke. I wonder what the shock wave would be like and how long the estimated millions of barrels of crude would burn for. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25870406 I cannot even wrap my head around this...holy sh** |
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| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25870406 United States10/22/2012 02:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | 1.2 X 10^18 so 1.2 exajoules. 1.4 i guess was the total electrical usage of the US in 2009.... [link to en.wikipedia.org] Well shit, thats a rather large explosion. |
| Anonymous Coward User ID: 25908870 United States10/22/2012 02:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | And then you would have to take into account that the blast would be mostly forced upwards out of the sinkholes etc. So it wouldn't be a clean expanding explosion like a surface nuke. I wonder what the shock wave would be like and how long the estimated millions of barrels of crude would burn for. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25870406 Yikes. |
