[ExI] Efficiency of wind power

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Mon Apr 18 10:23:09 UTC 2011


On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:42:29AM +0100, BillK wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 10:32 AM, Eugen Leitl  wrote:
> > Uranium is lithophile, so unlikely.
> >
> >
> 
> Can you expand this?  Meaning is unclear.
> 
> uranium -  A heavy silvery-white metallic element.
> 
> Lithophiles are micro-organisms that can live within the pore
> interstices of sedimentary and even igneous (if they are cracked—no
> natural space in igneous) rocks to depths of several kilometres

According to the Goldschmidt classification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldschmidt_classification

Nor uranior nor thorium are siderophile, hence there
is little of it in Earth's iron/iron sulfide core.

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