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Re:Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener by kingkawn on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @09:22AM (#19263353)
If you seeded an ecosystem with nitrogen supplements would it allow the plant life to grow at an accelerated rate and capture carbon?
Re:Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener by gepoch on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @09:34AM (#19263436)
You use ammonia to add nitrogen to crops. Making ammonia is an extremely energy intensive process that already contributes about 2-3% of global carbon emmissions. [1]

So you could spray ammonia everywhere to promote growth, but it's not clear that you'll offset the carbon emissions from making so much ammonia in the first place.

[1] https://m.phys.org/news/2018-07-electrochemically-produced-a...

Re:Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener by kingkawn on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @05:50PM (#19267628)
Ahh that’s what I figured, too bad

nitrogen fixing cover crops is the way in agriculture I guess

Re:Nasa Happily Reports the Earth Is Greener by gameswithgo on Wednesday February 27, 2019 @09:35AM (#19263449)
we are already doing that aggressively to feed everyone, and we worry it might be hard to keep it up, as is.