Well, celll, if do a little bit of research you might be able to find out for yourself. Anyway, I'll give you a head start.
Nitrogen based fertilizers are very important, but some synthetic fertilizers (urea) are filthy little blighters, full of carbon.
Now in relation to green nitrogen-based fertilizers, Yara are progressing at a fair pace towards the production of green ammonia.
Here is a small passage from their website as an illustration
"Today Yara has a portfolio of green ammonia projects, which will be key for the production of green fertilizers, in Norway, the Netherlands and Australia, and we’re working actively to expand our geographical presence through our clean ammonia business.
The first deliveries of Yara’s green fertilizers will be based on the pilot in Porsgrunn, Norway as this is one of the first projects that will come on stream. The building of the new plant has already started. Later deliveries will be integrated into Yara's portfolio of future green ammonia projects. The Porsgrunn project is Yara’s first electrolyzer project of industrial scale with system integration into an existing ammonia plant. The commercial start-up for this project is scheduled for 2023. It will produce round 20,000 tonnes of ammonia per year, which converts into between 60,000 and 80,000 tonnes of fossil free green mineral fertilizer.
The commercial start-up for this project is scheduled for 2023. The plant will produce around 20,000 tonnes of ammonia per year, which converts to between 60,000 and 80,000 tonnes of fossil free green mineral fertilizer. As part of theHEGRAproject, Yara aims to convert the entire Porsgrunn plant to green ammonia five to seven years from now, enabling large-scale green ammonia production."
As you can see green nitrogen-based fertilizer manufacture will be starting to ramp up and hit its straps at the same time NRZ and other startup companies start to come online, and the world maybe awash with urea.
An extreme prediction (let's hope it doesn't happen) would be that some of these projects go into "planned obsolescence" before they become financially viable.
Now a question for you. Do you think that green ammonia will replace fossil fuel derived ammonia, and if so, when?
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