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Artificial fertilizer doesn’t require fossil fuel. It requires energy, atmospheric nitrogen and hydrogen:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process

Roughly 50% of the nitrogen in average humans was extracted from the atmosphere using this process; it is well-established.



Interesting - so theoretically one could run the process off photovoltaics? Didn't know that!

Still, if we had to change to renewable sources of energy to run these processes tomorrow,the price would likely jump so enormously that their value would be mostly in niche applications.




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