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Lovins 10 (0:36)
Topic(s): Car Culture
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My colleague, retired Navy Captain Scott Pew, has a nice way
of visualizing how much oil the world is using everyday. Its
eighty-five million barrels—now a barrel is twenty
inches in diameter, 30 inches high, so lets take a bunch of
barrels and lay them down end to end on the ground.
Eighty-five million of them go around the world one and a half
times and that's how much we use every day. Now, if you take
out the ends of the barrel so they're a continuous twenty-inch
diameter pipeline, in order to get around the world one and a
half times in a day, that oil has to be flowing at rate
mach-2, twice the speed of sound.
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