fertilizer

ChatGPT generated aerial panoramic view of flooded rice paddies under the sun, with a visual overlay showing slower nutrient diffusion from oxamide pellets

Green Oxamide vs Green Ammonia: The Chemistry Behind a Smarter Fertilizer

China’s latest move in green fertilizer chemistry hasn’t made headlines, but it represents a quietly significant development. A new facility in Xinjiang will soon be producing half a million tonnes of oxamide fertilizer per year—using captured CO₂, green hydrogen, and green ammonia. That sentence alone folds in three separate decarbonization … [continued]

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On Hydrogen Forklifts, Bitcoin Mining and Green Fertilizer

The common thread among the disparate things in the title is hydrogen, whether green, gray or pitch black. What, you might ask does hydrogen have to do with forklifts, cryptocurrency and green fertilizer? Read on. Let’s start with forklifts. Recently they splashed across screens again, as Amazon installed a hydrogen … [continued]