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Originally Posted by hi_im_god
bad math riot. you can fit five 4" pipes down just one axis of a 20" pipe. that's assuming 20" is the interior dimension of the larger pipe and 4" the exterior dimension of the smaller. which isn't the case. but pretending it is, you still have a lot of 20" pipe left after you do that.
4" pipe area is the radius (2') x 3.14 squared= 39.4 square inches
20" pipe area is the radius (10") x 3.14 squared = 986 square inches
that's about 4%, not 20%.
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That's not my math - that's THEIR math
Of course, they also say that only 5,000 gallons a day are spilling, and they are pulling 1,000 gal a day from the draft pipe.
As an aside: today I could have turned left into the BP Station, or right into the Speedway. I conciously chose Speedway.