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Re:Soaring fertilizer prices could see millions more underno... by nradov on Monday December 26, 2022 @10:31AM (#34138353)
Ammonia can be produced from any power source. So in theory we could use renewable power to manufacture "green ammonia" for farming. So far that has only been done in small demonstration projects and all the real fertilizer manufacturing is still done using fossil fuels as the main input.

https://e360.yale.edu/features/from-fertilizer-to-fuel-can-g...

Re:Soaring fertilizer prices could see millions more underno... by slothtrop on Monday December 26, 2022 @01:35PM (#34140369)
The level of power required is so high that renewables are nowhere near viable at this point.