Quote of the Day

Researchers in Dr. Chirik’s lab are also hunting for ways to use catalysts to convert nitrogen from the air into forms used in various products, from fertilizer to carpet fiber. The current method, the Haber-Bosch process, is so energy-intensive it accounts for 1 percent of all global energy use. - Hillary Rosner in a story in The New York Times

One percent of all global energy use?!? One percent of all the coal, oil and uranium burned for fuel? Even if we don't count wood or food energy, that's a stink load of power. (And yes I know, we don't literally burn uranium, but we use it up none-the-less.)