''A Cubic Mile of Oil'' is a 2010 book by
Hewitt Crane, Edwin Kinderman, and Ripudaman Malhotra. The title refers to a
unit of energy
Energy is defined via work, so the SI unit of energy is the same as the unit of work – the joule (J), named in honour of James Prescott Joule and his experiments on the mechanical equivalent of heat. In slightly more fundamental terms, is ...
intended to provide a visualizable scale for comparing large amounts of energy. Defined as the energy released by burning a
cubic mile
A cubic mile (abbreviation: cu mi or mi3) is an imperial and US customary (non- SI non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of 1 mile (63360 inche ...
of oil, a "CMO" is approximately equal to
joule
The joule ( , ; symbol: J) is the unit of energy in the International System of Units (SI). It is equal to the amount of work done when a force of 1 newton displaces a mass through a distance of 1 metre in the direction of the force applie ...
.
A cubic mile of oil is approximately the world's yearly consumption of oil and the book examines the possible replacements with other sources. For example, it would require building 32,850 wind turbines or 52 nuclear power plants, each year for 50 years, to obtain in one year the amount of energy contained in one cubic mile of oil.
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References
External links
'Doug Englebart's colloquium'Hewitt Crane discusses the state of the world's energy supply
Ripudaman Malhotra talks about A Cubic Mile of Oil at the University of Toledo.
Blog for posting updates to A Cubic Mile of Oil.
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