Chatgpt can expand knowledge. I asked how big a cube is needed to contain a million barrels of oil. Answer is 54m³. Daily world usage 100 million barrels (250m³). All oil burned since industrial revolution…6.2 (km)³. That is about the same size as Helvellyn.
ChatGP clearly needs to put down the crack pipe and step away from the keyboard.
A standard barrel of oil is 159 litres, so a million of them would have a volume of 159,000 cubic metres.
I think @lebeuil1 was talking of a cube 54m x 54m x 54m rather than 54 m3. That makes 157,464 m3 which is close to your figure.
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Yes, silly error. All the ³ figures are supposed to be x x x . I was showing off the ability to get a ³ from an android keyboard.
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I learned many years ago a barrel was a medieval measure of 35 gallons called a tierce. The American oil industry standardised the barrel to this size in the late 1800s and it is still the measurement used today. Conversion to metric is 159 litres.
The largest oil tankers can transport the equivalent of more than 3 million ‘barrels’.
Pub quiz tonight
I’ve been using chatGPT quite a bit recently mostly for home projects - it gave me a really good recipe for achar using lacto fermented green mango.
I’m a bit of a watch geek and it has been really, really good at identifying fake watches on ebay using screen shots. I have another bigger project in mind which it has been useful for in the design phase, but that won’t come to fruition till July probably - a refrigerated cold smoking chamber for use in hot climates that will also double up as a curing chamber for hams and saucisson.