As of Friday, 70% of capacity is offline across the continent, according to Fertilizers Europe, representing top regional producers.
The picture is becoming more apparent that Europe's energy crisis and much of its fertilizer capacity offline will have severe consequences for the food industry in the growing season ahead -- leaving some to believe a global food crisis is only just materializing.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 1 year ago
This 2009 study I did is pertinent:
https://lotide.fbxl.net/posts/6006
We could stop using 2% of natural gas production for ammonia....using a full 30% of all worldwide non-carbon energy production...
Of course, doing so would be genocidal in other ways, because that energy production is used for stuff like not dying of hypothermia...