Much Bigger Than We are Being Told

Several different scientists using the film footage provided by BP of the actual oil spilling out of the pipe have calculated that the flow is as much as 10 to 20 times greater than the 5,000 barrels per day that we are being told. Different methods have been used to calculate the flow but all are saying the flow is much greater. This is not good news.

BP has said repeatedly that there is no reliable way to measure the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by looking at the oil gushing out of the pipe. But scientists say there are actually many proven techniques for doing just that.
Steven Wereley, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, analyzed videotape of the seafloor gusher using a technique called particle image velocimetry.
A computer program simply tracks particles and calculates how fast they are moving. Wereley put the BP video of the gusher into his computer. He made a few simple calculations and came up with an astonishing value for the rate of the oil spill: 70,000 barrels a day — much higher than the official estimate of 5,000 barrels a day.
The method is accurate to a degree of plus or minus 20 percent.