Haber-Bosch and Your Body

[Brandon Gwinn]

Did you know that an entire 1/3 of the Earth's population is sustained by fertilizer made out of about 100 million tons of synthetic ammonia every year from artificial nitrogen fixation out of the atmosphere by the Haber-Bosch process and that about half of the protein in your body is made from nitrogen captured by this technology of our own species. Before this in the late 1800s the world was reaching a population cap due to dwindling sources of natural nitrate-bearing fertilizer used in crop production. It could be said that we are partially man-made...What a thought.