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A more climate-friendly way to produce nitrogen fertilizer
Humanity has an insatiable appetite for ammonia: This substance is used to make fertilizer, which in turn is used in most modern agriculture. Until now, the Haber-Bosch process has been the method of choice for extracting nitrogen from the seemingly inexhaustible atmosphere and binding it in the form of ammonia. However, this method requires an extremely large amount of methane gas and energy.

"Food Waste to Fertilizer System Turns Scraps Into Plant Fertilizer"
#Food #FoodWaste
https://happyeconews.c…

Food Waste to Fertilizer System Turns Scraps Into Plant Fertilizer | Happy Eco News
A Pittsburgh startup has perfected food waste to fertilizer technology that turns banana peels, coffee grounds, and leftover sandwiches into powerful plant

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/…

Court Rules EPA Failed to Properly Consider, Update Water Pollution Standards For Oil Refineries, Plastics Plants
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled today that the Environmental Protection Agency acted unlawfully in declining to update water pollution control standards for seven major industries. The industries include petroleum refineries, inorganic and organic chemical manufacturers, and factories that manufacture plastics, fertilizer, pesticides and nonferrous metals. The court agreed with conservation groups that the Clean Water Act requires the EPA to consider technological advancements in cont…

A warehouse full of goods, a gas plant, a fertilizer plant - what's to say these aren't related?
Officials are still investigating the cause of a Pennsylvania steel plant explosion that killed 2 | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/officials-are-still-investigating-the-cause-of-a-pennsylvania-steel-plant-explosion-that-killed-2

my cat grass is always looking sad to try to guilt you into giving it more fertilizer. don't fall for it. it's already been fertilized

Effect of organic fertilizer and nano calcium spray on growth, yield and storage characteristics of fig fruits cv. waziri
Aram Sabir Ahmed, Mohamad Abdul Aziz Lateef
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11578

Effect of organic fertilizer and nano calcium spray on growth, yield and storage characteristics of fig fruits cv. waziri
This study was carried out to estimate the effect of organic fertilizer and Nano Calcium spray on the growth, yield, and storage of fig fruits cv. Waziri. It was conducted in the village of Kani Sard in the Sharbazhir district near the Sitak area. This is about 35 km northeast of the center of Sulaymaniyah. This study was conducted at 54 plants with three-year-old fig trees cultivated using the cordon method during the 2024 growth season. The controlled environment of the plastic house enabled …

High-entropy oxide photocatalysts for green ammonia synthesis from nitrogen fixation in water
Thanh Tam Nguyen, Jacqueline Hidalgo-Jimenez, Kaveh Edalati
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12558

High-entropy oxide photocatalysts for green ammonia synthesis from nitrogen fixation in water
Ammonia, a critical chemical fertilizer and a potential hydrogen carrier, can be sustainably synthesized from atmospheric nitrogen and water under ambient conditions through photocatalysis. In this study, high-entropy oxides with d0 and mixed d0+d10 cationic configurations are introduced as a new group of catalysts for nitrogen fixation and photocatalytic ammonia production. The oxides exhibit impressive efficiency in ammonia production compared to binary oxides, while the efficiency is improve…

Consider: we came fairly close to extincting the various species crucial to this cycle *AND STILL COULD.*
The problem today isn’t the ongoing symbolic & subsistence whaling, it is that we have ravaged the ocean ecosystem in ways we don’t understand, such as noise pollution.
We really don’t understand enough about the subsystems of the oceans to be fucking with them in the ways we have been during the past century.

From my postprandial walk.

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Bubble-Burst Synthesis of Ammonia, Amino Acids, and Urea Under Ambient, Catalyst-Free Conditions
This study introduces a catalyst-free, ambient-temperature method for synthesizing nitrogen-based compounds critical to fertilizer production, including ammonia, urea, ammonium salts, and amino acids. The process relies on bubble-burst-induced microenvironments, where gas bubbles undergo rapid growth and collapse, releasing intense localized energy sufficient to dissociate nitrogen and water molecules. These high-energy zones produce reactive species, including atomic hydrogen (H*) that facilit…

Bubble-Burst Synthesis of Ammonia, Amino Acids, and Urea Under Ambient, Catalyst-Free Conditions
Jerome J. Cuomo (Jerry), Ian Goodall (Jerry), C. Richard Guarnieri (Jerry), Gennaro (Jerry), Cuomo, Stephen Hudak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23850

Bubble-Burst Synthesis of Ammonia, Amino Acids, and Urea Under Ambient, Catalyst-Free Conditions
This study introduces a catalyst-free, ambient-temperature method for synthesizing nitrogen-based compounds critical to fertilizer production, including ammonia, urea, ammonium salts, and amino acids. The process relies on bubble-burst-induced microenvironments, where gas bubbles undergo rapid growth and collapse, releasing intense localized energy sufficient to dissociate nitrogen and water molecules. These high-energy zones produce reactive species, including atomic hydrogen (H*) that facilit…