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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.
Green Play Ammonia™, Yielder® NFuel Energy.
Spokane, Washington. 99212
www.exactrix.com
509 995 1879 cell, Pacific.
Nathan1@greenplayammonia.com
exactrix@exactrix.com
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