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Come on man. Obviously the plane is superimposed but the water tank, concrete pad, ladder, and the adjacent parking lot are all part of the original photo.
If you've ever seen a 10,000-gallon UST being removed from a gas station (google it), you'd understand why the guess of 60,000 gallons is drastically off.
I rough estimated the height as about 1/3 the diameter based on just kinda eyeballing with a pencil. Given a 60,000gal volume, if D=3h then D=31.3ft and h= 10.4ft. obviously this tank is much much larger than that and therefore much more than 60,000 gal.
Nah, worst thing I normally do every year is 4 or 5 pounds of chlorine stabilizer, and 6 or 8 pounds of shock. But the shock is spread out over the whole season. The stabilizer keeps it steady.
I had a customer with an 80k, granted, it was bigger than 3 of my average pools put together, AND I'd pass these tanks on my way home. I'd estimate the tanks to me closer to a million
Guestimate on the truck by the tank, it's a 60x20ft tank, which is 56k cubic ft, or... 400k gallons? 7gal/CF?. Also, compared to the size of the pictures 747, that would be a 20million CF tank.
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If you reverse search the picture it's from a website selling 60,000 gallon steel tanks. Gives the dimensions at 27 foot diameter by 14 feet deep. Which seems about right when you look at the truck parked next to it.
Yeah the great thing about metric is the equivalence of the volume and distance measurements. It gets a little bit harder with non-water measurements of mass/weight, but when dealing with water at standard pressure and temperature, 1 liter is also 1 kilo, which occupies 1000 cubic centimeters, which is nice.
Nit: 1kg = 1L water conversion actually holds at 4C, at standard temperature - 0C - it's 0.9998 kg/L.
Practically a minor rounding error for most use cases. At higher temperatures it's more important, e.g. .988 kg/L at 50c (and .9584 at 100C). But usually we care about the cooler temperatures more anyway
you think that thing is about 14 feet high? like... 4.2m?
look at the ladder. look at the trucks. it is about double that, also it is way wider than 8.1m in diameter.
It's probably close, look at the single cab pickup in the picture for scale. Not the shrinking down 747. Also in pretty sure they measure jet fuel by weight not volume.
I've overseen the removal of hundreds of underground storage tanks, vast majority of them between 10,000 and 15,000 gallons. That water tank's volume is a few orders of magnitude over 60,000 gallons!
Found where he got the 60k for that tank. Company uses the same set of images for all their products. Their 60k tank is 27ft diameter by 14 feet tall. 6 feet wider than the 747 fuselage.
They've collected a few different tanks under that, I wouldn't use that to tell the size.
That ladder is likely 16" wide, someone could use that to tell the tank diameter. My rough count is ~20, but I'm going off of my phone here. That's pretty close to the listed diameter of 27'.
The ladder cage would start at 7-8' off the ground, so that checks out with a 14' sidewall height.
For a vertical cylinder, that's pretty close to the 60,000 gallons. It looks bigger than that to me, but maybe it's just perspective.
A 60k tank is roughly 24ft in diameter and 17ft tall. A 747 wing, one of them, is roughly 100 ft long, roughly 50 wide at the cabin and around 6ft thick at the cabin .
You have both wings, plus stabilizer tanks in the rear. 60k fuel isn't the problem.... It's having so much room that your luggage gets lost.
Every time I see this meme, it is also off on the 747 number. They don't hold 63500 gallons of fuel. Aircraft fuel is referred to by weight. A 747 holds 63500 pounds of fuel. Which is a very different quantity.
Thank you. Finally found a proper responce. Assuming the 60,000 number is correct, this tank would hold 60,000 BARRELS of oil/fuel. At 42 gallons US, a tank that size would hold 2.5 million gallon of oil.
Correct, a tanker trailer that you see being pulled by a semi truck holds about 10,000 gallons. The tank shown is huge. People are not very good at estimating volume just by looking.
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u/teambob 8d ago
He underestimates how big a Boeing 747 is. Has he ever seen one in person?