Re: Guardian: Solar power from Sahara could provide Europe's electricity,

Paul C wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:20:40 +0100, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax
> <dirk.bruere@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Every hectare of normal topsoil contains around 100kg of Uranium
> 
> 
> Source?

Any textbook or article on Uranium.
Typical prevalence is 2 parts per million, rising to 10ppm in farmland 
where phosphate fertiliser has been used.

Assuming a topsoil depth of 1m, and a density of 4 tonnes per cu m, we 
get 1 hectare at 40,000 tonnes, or 40,000,000 kg. One ppm of that is 40kg

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