Green Ammonia Production

Great question. It's a question a lot of people asking. We we import about two million tons of fertilizer every year. Um but there are so many more ways that we can actually disconnect the supply of fertilizer from fossil fuels. Now there are three types of fertilizer you know nitrogen, phosphorus and pass potassium, phosphorus and potassium come from mine sources mainly. But as far as nitrogen is concerned, the simplest one is ammonia, which is NH3 matter of nitrogen and hydrogen. Now nitrogen you can get out of the air because most of the air around us is nitrogen, and the cease of sort of hydrogen has been from fossil fuels. But in fact, what they do is they get the ammonia production using methane, which has four hydrogen atoms and they whack it in. But turning air and methane into ammonia is very energy intensive, and it also leaves CO2. So there's a lot of work going on at the moment to see why do we have to get hydrogen and carbon from fossil fuels. There's no rule that says urea must come from fossil fuels. So we've got this emphasis now on green ammonia. Um and green ammonia will use water as a source of hydrogen. And there's two companies here, plasma leap and nitricity, that are working on techniques for doing that. But at the moment it's really expensive to split that m uh uh water down and get a much cheaper to use of fossil fuels. But farmers are really looking to become more independent. The the company is trying to set up machines that can be used at farm level or at least local town level rather than massive refineries to make this uh fertilizer, and they're saying they're trying to get their technology the market in three to five years. Um so you know, although this year's uh this year's uh federal budget has halved the funding for the next round of the hydrogen so-called head start program. Um they're still confident we're gonna see these very shortly, Jamie.