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Getting to the root of soil nitrogen
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Is ammonia the fuel of the future?
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In the beginning, there was forbidden fruit. It might have been a fig, or a pomegranate, or even wheat. Until in the fourth century A.D., when Pope Damasus ordered the scholar Jerome to translate the Hebrew Bible into Latin and he made it into an apple, to be funny. But it stuck.
But before the beginning, there was the Homo habilis whose ancestors had to spend an enormous amount of time chewing just to extract enough calories to stay alive. One day one of them found an animal that had been killed in a grass fire and gave it a nibble. After that, they used fire on all their food to kill germs, destroy poisons, and make things more digestible. They called it cooking. Because of this, over the next few thousand generations, their jaws shrank and brains grew and boom, we had humans.
Why Scientists Are Calling Ammonia the “Fuel of the Future”
And it might do it again!
What we re looking at is the equation for the
Haber-Bosch process.
To the layman, this equation is little more than a string of letters and numbers. But without it, there s a good chance neither you nor I would exist today. It s quite likely that without this equation, neither of us would have been born.
That s because without this equation, it s likely there would not have been enough food to feed our grandparents let alone any children.
Commercial agriculture requires fertilizers. Prior to the 20th century, the most common fertilizer used to grow food was manure. And one of the most important sources of that manure was bird and bat guano, which was found in remote tropical locations.
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