RE: Number of carbon atoms in the Earth's biomass

From: Amara D. Angelica (amara@kurzweilai.net)
Date: Sun Jul 13 2003 - 19:32:26 MDT

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    According to Robert Bradbury in
    http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/Papers/GWiaRH.html, "Hunt [1] has
    calculated there are 1.55×10^19 kg of organic carbon on the Earth."
    Based on that figure, and assuming all "organic carbon" is contained in
    "biomass," the total number of carbon atoms in the biomass would be 7.8
    x 10^44. Comments?

    [1] Hunt, J. M., Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology, W. H. Freeman
    (1979, 1996)

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