Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re...
by bittercynic on Thursday October 13, 2022 @08:53PM
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"The Haber process consumes 3–5% of the world's natural-gas production (around 1–2% of the world's energy supply)"[1]
Seems like we could cut out most fossil-fuel consumption without making any sacrifice on this front.
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process#Economic_and_env...
Re:White House is pushing ahead research to cool Earth by re...
by kortex on Friday October 14, 2022 @09:08AM
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Even if we don't figure out green hydrogen for some time, I'd be okay with diverting some amount of fossil fuel consumption to essential chemical processes, like Haber-Bosh ammonia and plastics, while cutting drastically the systems that don't strictly need hydrocarbons for their purpose. Hydrocarbons are wildly useful chemical precursors, it's kind of a shame they are mostly used just for burning.
The Haber-Bosch process requires nitrogen pulled from petrochemicals (there are no other large sources of nitrogen we can use at scale) to feed a large portion of the worlds population. We literally *CANNOT* go back to guano - people would starve to death.