Re: Sahim, a hydrogen car from Turkey

In message <DdadnTBGmYYhW_nXnZ2dnUVZ_hmdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxx>, jim <".sjedgingN0sp"@m.?.net.invalid> writes
Have you ever heard of a desert. How about a man-made desert? Many of the
world's deserts are man made and the process for turning arable land into desert
is pretty simple - remove the carbon from the soil and you have a desert. There
are very few places in the world that get enough natural regular rainfall to
support any sort plant life without at least .5% carbon in the soil. The places
where the carbon is below that level are now deserts. Once plants stop growing,
the soil carbon quickly drops to close to 0%.
And here's me all the time believing that a desert was a place that had an annual rainfall of less than 12 inches.
--
Clive
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