{"id":2989,"date":"2010-06-16T17:31:41","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T21:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rbach.net\/blog\/?p=2989"},"modified":"2022-12-30T15:17:47","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T20:17:47","slug":"the-physics-of-the-bp-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/the-physics-of-the-bp-oil-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"The Physics of the BP Oil Spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-94161\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/BP-oil-spill-Greenpeace-logo-1.jpg?resize=81%2C81&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"81\" height=\"81\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/BP-oil-spill-Greenpeace-logo-1.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/BP-oil-spill-Greenpeace-logo-1.jpg?resize=75%2C75&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/BP-oil-spill-Greenpeace-logo-1.jpg?w=240&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 81px) 100vw, 81px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSNBC<\/a> has an excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130128065943\/http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com:80\/id\/37517080\/ns\/disaster_in_the_gulf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interactive chart<\/a> that explains what will happen over next the decades to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>210,000,000 U.S. gallons<\/strong><\/a><strong> of oil that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">British Petroleum<\/a> (BP) spilled into the Gulf of Mexico during 2010.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130128065943\/http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com:80\/id\/37517080\/ns\/disaster_in_the_gulf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2990 aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0pt none;\" title=\"physics-of-oil-spills\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/physics-of-oil-spills-e1561684507270-150x130.png?resize=290%2C252&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Physics of BP oil spill\" width=\"290\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/physics-of-oil-spills-e1561684507270.png?resize=150%2C130&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/physics-of-oil-spills-e1561684507270.png?resize=75%2C65&amp;ssl=1 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/rbach.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/physics-of-oil-spills-e1561684507270.png?w=532&amp;ssl=1 532w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 290px) 100vw, 290px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><a title=\"Ralph Bach\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/new-resume\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ralph Bach<\/a>\u00a0has been in IT long enough to know better and has blogged from his\u00a0<a title=\"Bach Seat\" href=\"https:\/\/rbach.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bach Seat<\/a> about IT, careers, and anything else that catches his attention since 2005. You can follow him on <a class=\"broken_link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/rb48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">LinkedIn<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ralph.bach.14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rbach48334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Twitter<\/a>. Email the Bach Seat\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:\/\/bach.seat@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSNBC has an excellent chart that explains what will happen over next the decades to the 60,000 barrels of oil a day that BP is spilling into the Gulf of Mexico<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3240,195,2500,802,196],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oil","tag-3240","tag-bp","tag-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-oil-spill"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127610,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions\/127610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rbach.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}