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Jun 5, 2022Liked by Melanie Newfield

brilliant well written article / i am informed / in my backyard is a bog filter that accomplishes the nitrogen cycle quite well / ammonia in the waste products of the fish is pumped thru a gravel bed (the bog filter) where the little people (microbes as you call them) metabolize them into nitrites and other little people eat the nitrites and transform it into nitrates which the plant people eat / hey i'm gonna write about this

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Great piece Melanie. I learned a lot. And I grew up on a dairy farm!

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Jun 7, 2022Liked by Melanie Newfield

Victoria University spin out Liquim has a new method of creating ammonia at room temperature for the production of ammonia as a fuel to replace diesel with converting to electric engines. Huge potential for an export nation that ships its goods worldwide to scale up the technology here.

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You took us on quite the journey! I'd heard of the dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico, but I love the way you lead us there. Thanks for such a well-researched piece on this important aspect of our environment.

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