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[Banjax]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/sep/02/bp-oil-find-gulf-of-mexico

this is good news, especially if you have shares in BP! - what concerns me is that if this is a giant find which could be as much as 4 billion barrels and even if BP could extract 100% of it, the planet consumes over 85m barrels a day!!

so this field will provide us with 47 days oil, except it won't even do that....

thats 100% extraction - its much more likely to be half that at best - so not even a month - and this is a "giant" field - we need to find one of these each month to keep us going 

[Nickbat]

You need to remember, Bannjaax (and especially next time you are flying at 37,000 ft and looking down), the world uses just 1 cubic mile of oil a year that's relatively small - as you would appreciate from the air - and we have reserves enough to last many decades.

 

[Banjax]

You need to remember, Bannjaax (and especially next time you are flying at 37,000 ft and looking down), the world uses just 1 cubic mile of oil a year that's relatively small - as you would appreciate from the air - and we have reserves enough to last many decades.

 

yep - but decades (about 2 i think) thats not a huge amount of time to develop viable alternatives to oil  :-?

[STMO999]

You need to remember, Bannjaax (and especially next time you are flying at 37,000 ft and looking down), the world uses just 1 cubic mile of oil a year that's relatively small - as you would appreciate from the air - and we have reserves enough to last many decades.

 

yep - but decades (about 2 i think) thats not a huge amount of time to develop viable alternatives to oil  :-?

World governments wont start to panic just yet. They'll wait until it could actually be them in office when it happens, then they'll panic.

[Banjax]

You need to remember, Bannjaax (and especially next time you are flying at 37,000 ft and looking down), the world uses just 1 cubic mile of oil a year that's relatively small - as you would appreciate from the air - and we have reserves enough to last many decades.

 

i love stuff like that - do you know if you melted all the gold on the planet and formed a cube - you could slide it under the eiffel tower? 

[Nickbat]

You need to remember, Bannjaax (and especially next time you are flying at 37,000 ft and looking down), the world uses just 1 cubic mile of oil a year that's relatively small - as you would appreciate from the air - and we have reserves enough to last many decades.

 

i love stuff like that - do you know if you melted all the gold on the planet and formed a cube - you could slide it under the eiffel tower? 

 
...or that the entire population of the world would fit shoulder-to-shoulder on the Isle on Man. 

[Banjax]

the Pyramids at Giza and the Hoover Dam are the only man-made objects visible from space 

[Banjax]

the concrete in the Hoover dam is still setting 

[lozzy]

i love facts like these there bonkers

[Varche]

Course the Americans, if they have any sense, will extract only a modicum of the oil and continue using everyone elses oil.

Thank god we have loads of oil reserves, won't be seeing any price hikes because of shortages then. What a relief we can all sleep easy.

Haven't been myself but can't you see the Great Wall of China from Space too? Also the huge (compared to the Hoover dam) 3 gorges Yangste river dam (70 stories high). 

V

[Banjax]

Course the Americans, if they have any sense, will extract only a modicum of the oil and continue using everyone elses oil.

Thank god we have loads of oil reserves, won't be seeing any price hikes because of shortages then. What a relief we can all sleep easy.

Haven't been myself but can't you see the Great Wall of China from Space too? Also the huge (compared to the Hoover dam) 3 gorges Yangste river dam (70 stories high). 

V

great wall of china is far too thin to be seen from space, its an old myth varche 

as i was typing i thought - there must be other dams - more research needed 

[STMO999]

You need to remember, Bannjaax (and especially next time you are flying at 37,000 ft and looking down), the world uses just 1 cubic mile of oil a year that's relatively small - as you would appreciate from the air - and we have reserves enough to last many decades.

 

i love stuff like that - do you know if you melted all the gold on the planet and formed a cube - you could slide it under the eiffel tower? 

Did you know..that people who have their brains stuffed with useless information are the most likely to end up living on their own?

[Banjax]

You need to remember, Bannjaax (and especially next time you are flying at 37,000 ft and looking down), the world uses just 1 cubic mile of oil a year that's relatively small - as you would appreciate from the air - and we have reserves enough to last many decades.

 

i love stuff like that - do you know if you melted all the gold on the planet and formed a cube - you could slide it under the eiffel tower? 

Did you know..that people who have their brains stuffed with useless information are the most likely to end up living on their own?

 

luckily, none of this information is useless then 

[Selseybill]

knock down Lee Park in Hampshire there's a large oil field under there.could be the best thing that could happen to this lovely area.

[Banjax]

this visible from space thing - opened a can of worms - ie how far away is space? can you use binoculars? - too many variables - i'm going to look at what man made objects can be seen from the moon (although i would guess none) - be right back fact fans