Beer fear

A query in no way related to common sense:

Will we ever run out of beer ?

Jan 14th, 2009

One pearl of wisdom on “Beer fear”

  1. Consultant G Says:
    January 14th, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    The total volume of water on the planet is estimated to be 1,386,000,000 cubic km. It is estimated that only 1 % of this is ‘available’ (while 3 % is fresh water, most is frozen or trapped well underground). This equals 13 860 000 cubic km2. Since 1 cubic km = 1.759 × 10^12 pints, there are 2.439 x 10^19 potential pints of beer.

    Annual consumption of beer is estimated to be about 1.5 10^11 litres, or 2.64 10^11 pints. Thus it would take 92,000,000 years to turn all the available water to beer at current production levels.

    With a world human population of 6.5 x 10^9, there are just over 3.75 10^9 pints per person (3,752,307,692).

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