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re: Two lifeforms merge in once-in-a-billion-years evolutionary event
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:11 am to LSUDVM1999
Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:11 am to LSUDVM1999
Next up: plants that don't need fertilizer.
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Posted on 4/18/24 at 8:48 am to KamaCausey_LSU
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Next up: plants that don't need fertilizer.
I know most on here aren’t entirely plugged into the world fertilizer market, but imagine if we could generate massive tons of ammonia without the need of methane or without the energy needed to split water. That would be amazing. Bad for my business but amazing.
We would still need potassium and phosphates/phosphorous plus other trace fertilizer elements, but this would be a huge step in “decarbonization” of modern industry.
Posted on 4/18/24 at 7:12 pm to KamaCausey_LSU
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Next up: plants that don't need fertilizer.
Yeah, soybeans and clover, and others. And have been around way longer than humans. I'm surprised that gene splicing hasn't been used to create nitrogen fixing corn, wheat, etc. People in the fertilizer business have worried about that for more than 50 years. Animals and plants are incredibly efficient at manufacturing their own chemicals, in ways that we don't understand yet. Chemicals that normally require high temperatures and pressures are made continuously in the human body. It's probably the next area of expansion for science.
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