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You use ammonia to add nitrogen to crops. Making ammonia is an extremely energy intensive process that already contributes about 2-3% of global carbon emmission
by gepoch 8y ago
You use ammonia to add nitrogen to crops. Making ammonia is an extremely energy intensive process that already contributes about 2-3% of global carbon emmissions. [1]
So you could spray ammonia everywhere to promote growth, but it's not clear that you'll offset the carbon emissions from making so much ammonia in the first place.
[1] https://m.phys.org/news/2018-07-electrochemically-produced-ammonia-revolutionize-food-production.html https://m.phys.org/news/2018-07-electrochemically-produced-a...
- kingkawn 8y agoAhh that’s what I figured, too bad nitrogen fixing cover crops is the way in agriculture I guess