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Are you forgetting the nitrogen? :)
by koverstreet 5mo ago
Are you forgetting the nitrogen? :)
- bluGill 5mo agoThe US provides a lot of its own supply there.
- colechristensen 5mo agoNitrogen is pulled out of the air which is free but the process requires hydrogen which is acquired from disassembled methane, the price of which is a significant contributor.
- 8note 5mo agoUS shale oil notably has a lot of natural gas - methane. the methane isnt the issue, building and operating the processing plants is
- colechristensen 5mo agoHard to find exact data but 60-80% of the cost to manufacture ammonia comes from the cost of natural gas. Feel free to look a price charts for both to see the correlation.
- bluGill 5mo agoLong term yes, however the building in such a plant is very expensive in the short term. As such, no one is going to build a plant unless they actually think it will have reasonably high utilization.
- fullstop 5mo agoThe US produces most of their own nitrogen, but the same is not true of potash.
- mythrwy 5mo agoThe US does have potash mines for example around Carlsbad New Mexico. But these cover only a percentage of domestic need. Perhaps they could be scaled up not sure.
- jandrewrogers 5mo agoAlso famously near Moab, Utah.
- AnimalMuppet 5mo agoIsn't the stuff west of Green River, Wyoming also potash?