• JATth@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    depend on that oil. I don’t, because I ride a bike.

    I dont remember the exact number, but about half of the nitrogen in your body was made using oil/fossil fuels. This is the ultimate climate end boss fight, manufacturing everything without sucking (more) oil from the ground. Until this happens we are all slaves of it.

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      3 days ago

      As long as we don’t put more CO2 in the air, it’s not that big of a problem, but I think we’ve got more than enough nitrogen in our biosphere already. The excess nitrogen is causing pollution problems by itself.

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        15 hours ago

        Yes. Part of the inputs to Haber bosch process is natural gas and a ton of process heat. The hydrogen source has to be switched to H2 from electrolyzers and the plant can’t burn the NG for heat. So the energy cost for switching is very steep. This transition is huge, as it would decouple production of food from fossil fuels.