{"id":5964,"date":"2010-06-16T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T17:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=5964"},"modified":"2011-01-20T14:05:57","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T19:05:57","slug":"how-much-is-that-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/06\/16\/how-much-is-that-spill\/","title":{"rendered":"How much is that spill?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-5965\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/oil-rig-explosion-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"oil rig explosion\" width=\"120\" height=\"120\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/oil-rig-explosion-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/06\/oil-rig-explosion.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 120px) 100vw, 120px\" \/>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bp.com\">BP<\/a> oil spill now has released at least 1.3 million barrels of oil into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulfbase.org\/facts.php\">Gulf of Mexico<\/a> since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion on June 15th.\u00a0 What&#8217;s that equivalent to?\u00a0 Professor <a title=\"Cutler Cleveland\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/energy\/people\/faculty\/bio-cleveland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cutler Cleveland<\/a>, director of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cees\/\"> BU Center for Energy and Environmental Studies<\/a> and editor of <em><a title=\"Encyclopedia of Earth\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/About_the_EoE\" target=\"_blank\">Encyclopedia of Earth<\/a><\/em>&#8221; suggests some possibilities in\u00a0his blog, &#8220;<a title=\"The Energy Watch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theenergywatch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Energy Watch<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Years of energy used in a single average America home:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 81,286<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Number of miles that could be driven by a Prius:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3,085,600,000<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Number of airplane round trips between London and Louisiana that could be taken by B<\/em><em>P CEO Tony Hayward:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 263,808<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Hours of motor gasoline consumption for the entire United States:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 3.9<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Minutes of world energy use:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 8<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Contact Cutler Cleveland, 617-353-3083, <a href=\"mailto:cutler@bu.edu\">cutler@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BP oil spill now has released at least 1.3 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig explosion on June 15th.\u00a0 What&#8217;s that equivalent to?\u00a0 Professor Cutler Cleveland, director of the BU Center for Energy and Environmental Studies and editor of Encyclopedia of Earth&#8221; suggests some possibilities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[3170,2902,3149,2972,2941,2904,2905,2903,280,3079,3171],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5964"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6112,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5964\/revisions\/6112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}