Natural gas: the not-so-secret ingredient required for your food

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7 December 21, 11:40am A new report from @FrontierEcon finds more natural gas is needed in electricity generation to support growing renew… https://t.co/wkv2lQjg68
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6 December 21, 4:28pm Today's government announcement of five new areas marked for #GHG storage opportunities represents another signific… https://t.co/OPt8jG1wVm
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6 December 21, 11:23am Read the full independent report from @ey_australia on the future of the Western Australian #oilandgas industry her… https://t.co/PZubb66zRO
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3 December 21, 3:47pm #Labor’s Powering Australia Plan provides some clarity around how the party plans to meet its emissions reduction t… https://t.co/QcGUT7VlH2
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Natural gas critical in making fertiliser

Most of the worlds’ food growth indirectly relies on natural gas. Natural gas is mainly methane, or CH4, the major source of hydrogen used to make the fertiliser that increases crop output.

According to the Agronomy Journal, 30 to 50% of crop yield is attributable to commercial fertiliser nutrient inputs. Fertiliser is so important to the way food is produced, that by some estimates almost half the people on the Earth are currently fed as a result of synthetic nitrogen fertilizer use.

In the late 1800s, some were concerned that the world’s population growth would outstrip food production, and that a mass starvation was inevitable. In 1918, Fritz Haber won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his theoretical solution to creating nitrogen, which plants need to grow. Shortly after, Carl Bosch commercialised the solution, which resulted in synthetic fertiliser. Nearly a hundred years on, we live in a world transformed by and highly dependent upon Haber–Bosch nitrogen.

Natural gas is critical to making fertiliser and access to natural gas recently drove one company to build its production facility in the U.S, where gas production is booming (read about it here).

Natural gas is abundant in Australia and can promote massive benefits to Australia’s prosperity as well. Let’s not let any more opportunities get away.