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Old 03-23-2019, 12:40 PM   #16 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Taylor95 View Post
Here's a crazy thought I just had:
Haha why not recycle urine and convert urea into ammonia? That would sure provide a substantial amount of ammonia for something. However, I'm sure the cost would be much higher than whatever you would get for it...
Urea is produced on an industrial scale from ammonia and carbon dioxide to be used as fertilizer. Soil bacteria reverse the reaction, providing ammonia as needed.
There is no practical use case for converting urea to ammonia (other than soil bacteria passing nutrients) that I know of.
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