Does anyone know what the volume/capacity of the Earth is?
 

I think up some whacky things at times and this is just another :rollem:.I think about all the oil we have been taking out of the ground over the years and can't see why it isn't gone yet. I also wonder what takes up the space that the oil occupied before we removed it. These statistics show how much is used per DAY:eek:
Oil consumption statistics - countries compared - Nationmaster

Earth's volume is approximately 1,083,210,000,000 km3 or

259,825,518 cubic miles

Note: there are 5.61 cubic ft per barrel

There are 147,197,952,000 cubic feet in a cubic mile

so there are 26,238,494,117 barrels per cubic mile

Wow Phil that was quick, now I have to waste a little more time and see how the numbers work, might take a me awhile.

If I have done the math right and the earth was made up entirely of oil it would take 196609382 years to use it all up, to many variables to even consider going any further at this time, maybe after I get my prescription refilled;)

Do the meds help or hinder your math abilities :D???

i was always thinking that oil even as crude has a function
like maybe lubricating the tectonic plates

They have made huge, huge fossil fuel discoveries recently. Just the Appalacian Basins have enough gas and oil to feed the USA for 550 years at current consumption rates. The trouble is US and especially world consumption rates are sky rocketing. Every developing country has increased demand and China will surpass US usage shortly if they haven't already.

Eventually we must learn to use hydrogen in fusion reactors or even better to economically use sunlight to crack water into hydrogen and oxygen and then burn it back to water again. That's a nice clean way to turn sunlight into fuel that is compatible with our current combustion technologies. Fusion is very hard to control and many decades away but we aready know how to use solar energy to crack water and reburn the H and O elements back to water. We now need to figure out how to do it cheaply. Until then , we rely on fossil fuels for heat and transportation. That needs to stop.