• BOMBS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      5 months ago

      Cool! Check this out…

      The following is a list of the first two rivers by outflow and the Mississippi in acre-foot:

      River Outflow (ac-ft/s)
      Amazon 181.6
      Ganges–Brahmaputra–Meghna 35.6
      Mississippi 17.3

      Crazy that the top is over 5 times more than the next one 😮. The largest outflow in North America and the one I’ve seen in person is the Mississippi, which is only 9.5% the outflow of the Amazon. The Amazon is over 10 times more than the Mississippi, which I thought was humongous in person 😮.

      On to sewers, which is what one of the uses for the acre-foot according to your quote. The following is a list wastewater generated by location:

      Location Generation (ac-ft/s)
      Asia 5,073.6
      NA & Europe 2,124.6
      All 3 Continents 7,198.2

      So the outflow of the Mississippi alone is greater than twice the wastewater of Asia, North America, and Europe combined 😮!

      My math may need to be checked 😬

    • brsrklf@jlai.lu
      4·
      5 months ago

      non-SI unit

      astrophysics

      Well no, I don’t think I would believe that.

      • KichaeEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        Yeah, it’s so unbelievable. The acre is much too large a unit to fit into the astrophysical canon.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 months ago

      It’s a capitalization issue caused by its COBOL processing code.

      The correct is atto-Farraday.