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Plus our agriculture in the first world is heavily dependent on fertilizers, that are mostly oil based. We are eating oil by gallons.
by seren 12y ago
Plus our agriculture in the first world is heavily dependent on fertilizers, that are mostly oil based. We are eating oil by gallons.
- jjoonathan 12y agoFertilizer is oil based? I thought plants got almost all of their carbon from the air. Are you talking about the hydrogen feeding into the Haber process? Because most of that comes from gas-shifted water and IIRC the energy and carbon for gas-shifting water comes from natural gas. The nitrogen itself comes from air, of course.
- seren 12y agoApparently, I was wrong, thanks for pointing it out, it seems to be actually natural gas dependent.