Someone has worked this out. Lol22 Oct 2018 00:15
How much oil is consumed daily in the world?
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Allen E Hall
Allen E Hall, 10 yr in engineering and mfg of chemical reactors & off shore oil rig products
Answered Dec 22 2016 · Author has 2k answers and 5.8m answer views
25,739,700,000 lbs or 11,699,863,636 kg is the weight of the oil extracted from the ground each day!! 26 billion pounds! Equal to 145 million megawatts of power or 224,960,073 man years of labor.
That works out to 9,401,425,425,000 lbs or 4,273,375,193,182 kg annually. That is almost 9.5 Trillion pounds a year! The equivalent of 82,166,666,667 man years of labor. 82 billion man years of labor every years!
The amount of energy in the oil we extract from the earth in total annually is 7 times the energy of all nuclear weapons combined or over 44,000 megatons of energy.
The Earth receives 1,388,888,888,888,880 MWh of solar energy from the sun each year of which 833,333,333,333 MWh is converted into chemical energy by plants. Some of this becomes coal and oil eventually. We consume a full years worth of chemical sunlight, 833,333,333,333 MWh , in oil every 16 years.
If you replaced the water running over niagra falls at full volume with crude oil, it would take 26 days for 1 year of oil to travel over the falls.
Over 500 trillion pounds in the last century or almost 1 Trillion man years of labor equivalent energy
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