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UnaBubba, that pun is absolutely awful. Pray, take me under your wing and teach me this mystic art. |
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Kyle:
Welcome to the Halfbakery. |
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A majority of the gas emitted by a car is nitrogen (N2) in the form of air. This is quite a few steps away from nitrogen fertilizer. Plants can use nitrogen
in one of two forms: ammonium nitrogen (NH4+) or nitrate nitrogen (NO3-). Neither of these is gaseous. |
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If ya really want to please your plant, concentrate the CO2 and plug them with that! |
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The problem is that nitrogen gas is about as stable as you can get (a triple bond--many explosives such as trinitrotoluene -TNT- are based on this fact); converting it to anything else takes quite a bit of energy. Some bacteria can make ammonia from nitrogen, and they live sympiotically in the root nodules of legumes, I think. |
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You toads have totally missed the point here: nitrogen oxides: NOx. Kyle is right - these are emitted in exhaust and are bad. It is not clear to me where they come from, though - there should not be much reduced nitrogen in fossil fuels. |
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I think the evidence of a true halfbaked idea here is the direct conversion of car waste into beneficial lawn plugs. This reminds me of my idea, "Car Dung", which I will post soon for the general edification. |
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Dude - the plugs! That is why it must be made into plugs! |
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This idea actually can work. NOx production used to be part of commercial fertilizer production in the early part of the century. |
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Also, you can produce nitric acid from the NOx, which can be used to produce nitrates. |
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Unfortunately, the reason this isn't done is that the equipment needed to to this would be large, and expensive, and not suitable for use on a vehicle. |
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