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This is probably a question easily solved by querying Wikipedia, but I'll ask it here so the answer benefits others as well, where does the urea used in fertil
by eloff 5y ago
This is probably a question easily solved by querying Wikipedia, but I'll ask it here so the answer benefits others as well, where does the urea used in fertilizer come from?
- fennecfoxen 5y agoThe usual chain is natural gas -> ammonia -> urea. Thus, one of the key factors influencing the supply is Hurricane Ida, which led to remarkably long shutdowns in natural gas production. https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/weekly/archivenew_ngwu/2021/10_28/ https://www.eia.gov/naturalgas/weekly/archivenew_ngwu/2021/1...
- selectodude 5y agoAmmonia (made from natural gas) and carbon dioxide.
- lcam84 5y agoUrea comes from the Harber process [1] Basically most of food fertilizer depends on fossil fuels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process