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NH3 at 1% Feeding Cows, Green Play Ammonia
 

The Greatest Carbon Sink of All.
 

You can feed cows ammonia produced grass at double the carrying capacity.

 

When Ammonia costs are $100 to $300 per ton of Green Play NH3 everything changes.

 

Maybe we should conserve.

 

Use Less and Get More.

 

Batteries are not a total solution.

 

Ammonia Batteries are a big part of the solution because they are made of steel tanks that last maybe more than 100 years and can be rebuilt or recycled.

 

Ammonia tanks go up in value….not down….In the month of January, Ammonia Storage Tanks  are selling at 30,000 gallons at 45 years of age for 2.5 to 3.5 times their original cost. A new 30,000 gallon  Ammonia tanks built by Dragon in Provo, Utah are $103,000 .  Producers can purchased used 45 year old ammonia tanks  for $72,000 in a diverse and national electronic auction. The tanks are in demand and have value…and will continue to have value as we start converting propane tanks to ammonia tanks. In 2067 a 2022 tank should be worth about $275,000.

 

Ammonia tanks have a good long term value because they have R Code Welders, Fire Marshalls, National Board of Review, U Stamp Engineers/Builders, and Hartford Steam and Boiler Insurance Company. The storage tanks for ammonia spot inspections and full inspections for safety with stationary 30,000 gallon tanks takes place about every 10 years. They are inspected if they are moved.

 

This North American System is found only here in our big world.. The ANSI, ASTM, ASME and state amendments and doctrines are a major contributor to value and safety. And we did not use additional carbon, fossil carbon to build the pressure vessel tanks when they traded used.

 

The Pressure Vessel Quality, grade 70 steel is designed at 70,000 psi tensile, 22% per cent elongation and can be heat treated and stress relieved to 90,000 psi tensile. About 1970 to 75 this steel class began to replace the T-1 or ASTM 514 at 16% elongation. The advancements in metallurgy allowed tank weight to be reduced about 33% in the 1975 time period. Nuclear Industry test procedures, welding techniques with inert gasses and equipment testing quality advanced also. Steel elongation values and improved welding allowed the tanks to be assembled with optimum wall thickness and weld quality/inspection.  There is no difference in tank quality based on age. Older tanks do weigh more if they are built before 1975-78 time line.  

 

In Kansas Conditions.

 

No-tillage, Exactrix TAPPKTS plus Zinc deep in the soil , Rotate, Lower Input Costs by building Green Ammonia…at $100 to $300 per ton. Marginal Grazing lands can be No-tillage, Mustang, deep banded every five years with TAPPKTS at great rates of return. Producers can keep the cows grazing and returning the manure to the land.  Rotational Band Loading  can double carrying capacity as it has in Texas and Kansas.  Ben McClure can tell you the whole story how to build soils economically. Steve Kuhlman can tell you at Chester, NE with 5.5% OM in native pasture.

 

Feeding the cows on the grasslands to 1,000 lbs. makes a lot of sense….but feedlots can feed green distillers grains…Yes sir  Green Distillers Grains are coming with an EPA pathway.  

 

At the feedlot why not build a 30 foot high, supporting roof with solar panels…make power and cool the cows for maximum gain and capture the Methane with a new tool ….the Bovine Belch-A-Matic.

 

This is pretty much outside the box for a cowboy….but really not with economics making the decision.

 

No Tillage reduces all three GHG’s and raising up the OM 1% will capture the entire emission of carbon for the US for 1 year.  The really Nasty one is N2O with ag contributing to 62.5 % of the problem.

 

Headed back to natural farming means. Building carbon storage in soils…slowing the use of fossil fuels. Using less fertilizer, Making sure it is deep banded. No more top dressing of fertilizer. Reduction of the Nasty or worst of all, Laughing Gas or N2O is coming. This material is 300 times more toxic than CO2.

 

Renewables have a great future….Dams and Nuclear….is pretty pokey….but you can be local with renewables with a microgrid and you can do it much faster.

 

Just like they do in Western KS….they have alternatives at Hugoton when Natural Gas comes to an end.  The wind is the big asset and it is exposed every day….you can point to it….and you can spot used wind towers that are 100 years plus of age….and still working….so we now know that wind towers have much longer lives with the Technology of blades advancing and recycle is now more understood.

 

I will place my bet on Wind Power, Solar Power, Renewable crushed soy, canola, mustard, sunflower all No till and raised with Green Play Ammonia. Pumped Storage and Thermal are also in that loop in the Rocky Mountains of North America. Thermal is a perfect fit for Green Play Ammonia.

 

I would opt out of this article that Bruce wrote because I know who paid for it subtle or professional….Bruce is lost due to his fossil fuel subsidy of his life style…Fossil Fuel is coming to an end.  

 

Wood and Coal came to an end on the railroad. The UP is starting their evaluation of battery power thanks to Progress Rail or Caterpillar. Kerosene or Coal came to an end thanks to Edison. Nuclear has come to an end in Japan. Japan is phasing out Coal slowing the blend with up to 30% NH3 dual fuel and bringing in Green NH3 from Australia.  

 

Coal is first to go, Natural Gas is next. And last to go is consumer needs to do a fill up with petrol which must go.   Now we have coming on the horizon of change,  a new era with Ethanol based renewable at 85% and Bio Diesel.

 

Ethanol is going to be really Green With Yielder® NFuel and Green Play Ammonia. We can keep our reciprocating engines for many more years….the depreciation schedule is key.

 

An EPA pathway is forming up for your farm and livestock. I can see it coming. You need to help make it happen.

 

Our Batteries last 100 or more years.

Final note:  National security of the food supply is greatly enhanced by making ammonia locally. Mega plants are a disaster in the making.


by Bruce Haedrich

When I saw the title of this lecture, especially with the picture of the scantily clad model, I couldn’t resist attending.  The packed auditorium was abuzz with questions about the address; nobody seemed to know what to expect. The only hint was a large aluminum block sitting on a sturdy table on the stage.
When the crowd settled down, a scholarly-looking man walked out and put his hand on the shiny block, “
Good evening,” he said, “I am here to introduce NMC532-X,” and he patted the block, “we call him NM for short,” and the man smiled proudly. “NM is a typical electric vehicle (EV) car battery in every way except one; we programmed him to send signals of the internal movements of his electrons when charging, discharging, and in several other conditions. We wanted to know what it feels like to be a battery. We don’t know how it happened, but NM began to talk after we downloaded the program.
Despite this ability, we put him in a car for a year and then asked him if he’d like to do presentations about batteries. He readily agreed on the condition he could say whatever he wanted. We thought that was fine, and so, without further ado, I’ll turn the floor over to NM,”
 the man turned and walked off the stage.
“Good evening,” NM said. He had a slightly affected accent, and when he spoke, he lit up in different colors. “That cheeky woman on the marquee was my idea,” he said. “Were she not there, along with ‘naked’ in the title, I’d likely be speaking to an empty auditorium! I also had them add ‘shocking’ because it’s a favorite word amongst us batteries.” He flashed a light blue color as he laughed.
“Sorry,” NM chuckled, then continued, “Three days ago, at the start of my last lecture, three people walked out. I suppose they were disappointed there would be no dancing girls. But here is what I noticed about them. One was wearing a battery-powered hearing aid, one tapped on his battery-powered cell phone as he left, and a third got into his car, which would not start without a battery. So, I’d like you to think about your day for a moment; how many batteries do you rely on?”
He paused for a full minute which gave us time to count our batteries.  Then he went on, “Now, it is not elementary to ask, ‘what is a battery?’ I think Tesla said it best when they called us Energy Storage Systems. That’s important. We do not make electricity – we store electricity produced elsewhere, primarily by coal, uranium, natural gas-powered plants, or diesel-fueled generators. So to say an EV is a zero-emission vehicle is not at all valid. Also, since forty percent of the electricity generated in the U.S. is from coal-fired plants, it follows that forty percent of the EVs on the road are coal-powered, do you see?”

He flashed blue again. “Einstein’s formula, E=MC2, tells us it takes the same amount of energy to move a five-thousand-pound gasoline-driven automobile a mile as it does an electric one. The only question again is what produces the power? To reiterate, it does not come from the battery; the battery is only the storage device, like a gas tank in a car.” He lit up red when he said that, and I sensed he was smiling. Then he continued in blue and orange. “Mr. Elkay introduced me as NMC532. If I were the battery from your computer mouse, Elkay would introduce me as double-A, if from your cell phone as CR2032, and so on. We batteries all have the same name depending on our design. By the way, the ‘X’ in my name stands for ‘experimental.’ 
There are two orders of batteries, rechargeable, and single-use. The most common single-use batteries are A, AA, AAA, C, D. 9V, and lantern types. Those dry-cell species use zinc, manganese, lithium, silver oxide, or zinc and carbon to store electricity chemically. Please note they all contain toxic, heavy metals.
Rechargeable batteries only differ in their internal materials, usually lithium-ion, nickel-metal oxide, and nickel-cadmium.
The United States uses three billion of these two battery types a year, and most are not recycled; they end up in landfills. California is the only state which requires all batteries be recycled. If you throw your small, used batteries in the trash, here is what happens to them.
All batteries are self-discharging.  That means even when not in use, they leak tiny amounts of energy. You have likely ruined a flashlight or two from an old ruptured battery. When a battery runs down and can no longer power a toy or light, you think of it as dead; well, it is not. It continues to leak small amounts of electricity. As the chemicals inside it run out, pressure builds inside the battery’s metal casing, and eventually, it cracks. The metals left inside then ooze out. The ooze in your ruined flashlight is toxic, and so is the ooze that will inevitably leak from every battery in a landfill. All batteries eventually rupture; it just takes rechargeable batteries longer to end up in the landfill.
In addition to dry cell batteries, there are also wet cell ones used in automobiles, boats, and motorcycles. The good thing about those is, ninety percent of them are recycled. Unfortunately, we do not yet know how to recycle batteries like me or care to dispose of single-use ones properly.
But that is not half of it.  For those of you excited about electric cars and a green revolution, I want you to take a closer look at batteries and also windmills and solar panels. These three technologies share what we call environmentally destructive embedded costs.”
NM got redder as he spoke. “Everything manufactured has two costs associated with it, embedded costs and operating costs. I will explain embedded costs using a can of baked beans as my subject.

In this scenario, baked beans are on sale, so you jump in your car and head for the grocery store. Sure enough, there they are on the shelf for $1.75 a can. As you head to the checkout, you begin to think about the embedded costs in the can of beans. The first cost is the diesel fuel the farmer used to plow the field, till the ground, harvest the beans, and transport them to the food processor. Not only is his diesel fuel an embedded cost, so are the costs to build the tractors, combines, and trucks. In addition, the farmer might use a nitrogen fertilizer made from natural gas.
Next is the energy costs of cooking the beans, heating the building, transporting the  workers, and paying for the vast amounts of electricity used to run the plant. The steel can holding the beans is also an embedded cost. Making the steel can requires mining taconite, shipping it by boat, extracting the iron, placing it in a coal-fired blast furnace, and adding carbon. Then it’s back on another truck to take the beans to the grocery store. Finally, add in the cost of the gasoline for your car.
But wait - can you guess one of the highest but rarely acknowledged embedded costs?” NM said, then gave us about thirty seconds to make our guesses. Then he flashed his lights and said, “It’s the depreciation on the 5000 pound car you used to transport one pound of canned beans!”
NM took on a golden glow, and I thought he might have winked. He said, “But that  can of beans is nothing compared to me! I am hundreds of times more complicated. My embedded costs not only come in the form of energy use; they come as environmental destruction, pollution, disease, child labor, and the inability to be recycled.”
He paused, “I weigh one thousand pounds, and as you see, I am about the size of a travel trunk.” NM’s lights showed he was serious. “I contain twenty-five pounds of lithium, sixty pounds of nickel, 44 pounds of manganese, 30 pounds cobalt, 200 pounds of copper, and 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic. Inside me are 6,831 individual lithium-ion cells. It should concern you that all those toxic components come from mining. For instance, to manufacture each auto battery like me, you must process 25,000 pounds of brine for the lithium, 30,000 pounds of ore for the cobalt, 5,000 pounds of ore for the nickel, and 25,000 pounds of ore for copper. All told, you dig up 500,000 pounds of the earth’s crust for just - one - battery.”
He let that one sink in, then added, “I mentioned disease and child labor a moment ago. Here’s why. Sixty-eight percent of the world’s cobalt, a significant part of a battery, comes from the Congo. Their mines have no pollution controls and they employ children who die from handling this toxic material. Should we factor in these diseased kids as part of the cost of driving an electric car?”

NM’s red and orange light made it look like he was on fire. “Finally,” he said, “I’d like to leave you with these thoughts. California is building the largest battery in the world near San Francisco, and they intend to power it from solar panels and windmills. They claim this is the ultimate in being ‘green,’ but it is not! This construction project is creating an environmental disaster. Let me tell you why.
The main problem with solar arrays is the chemicals needed to process silicate into the silicon used in the panels. To make pure enough silicon requires processing it with hydrochloric acid, sulfuric acid, nitric acid, hydrogen fluoride, trichloroethane, and acetone. In addition, they also need gallium, arsenide, copper-indium-gallium- diselenide, and cadmium-telluride, which also are highly toxic. Silicon dust is a hazard to the workers, and the panels cannot be recycled.
Windmills are the ultimate in embedded costs and environmental destruction. Each weighs 1688 tons (the equivalent of 23 houses) and contains 1300 tons of concrete, 295 tons of steel, 48 tons of iron, 24 tons of fiberglass, and the hard to extract rare earths neodymium, praseodymium, and dysprosium. Each blade weighs 81,000 pounds and will last 15 to 20 years, at which time it must be replaced. We cannot recycle used blades. Sadly, both solar arrays and windmills kill birds, bats, sea life, and migratory insects.
NM lights dimmed, and he quietly said, “There may be a place for these technologies, but you must look beyond the myth of zero emissions. I predict EVs and windmills will be abandoned once the embedded environmental costs of making and replacing them become apparent.
I’m trying to do my part with these lectures.  As you can see, if I had entitled this talk “The Embedded Costs of Going Green,” who would have come?  But thank you for your attention, good night, and good luck.”

NM’s lights went out, and he was quiet, like a regular battery.


 

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