Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch beg to differ.
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Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch beg to differ.
No, but usually animals do eat too. Occasionally. I think you'd be able to argue that the worldwide meat consumption would be impossible without fertilizer and therefore Haber and Bosch.
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Neither Haber, nor Bosch have invented anything that did feed me. And Haber did invent something that tries to kill me (mustard gas) and Bosch founded a company, that I constantly curse, when my car engine stalls.
Which both in turn makes me angry and makes me in turn hungry. So both don't feed me, but make me starve.
Wrong. They laid the foundation for the Haber-Bosch process without which we couldn't supply billions of humans with food every day.
And I would call the possibility to produce ammonia industrially an invention. I think it was a novel or unique process, which is part of the definition of an invention.
I don't know how often you were killed by mustard gas or your car engine stalled, but without fertilizer you'd probably wouldn't even exist to complain about that.
Every single powertool I use is from Bosch. I'll stand by that brand forever.
Well, agriculture isn't direct feeding as well but without it there would be a very limited supply of food that is harder to obtain than "Go to the next supermarket/bakery/butcher/whereever else you buy stuff".
To me the word "feeding" includes everything that is required to feed me. Everyone else might have another definition of feeding like the things I eat.:tiphat:
How much of your body height does your head make? 15%?
Just because something isn't the biggest factor it can still be pretty important. If there are no peanuts from this point on I won't be able to eat peanuts. If there was no fertilizer the food prices would skyrocket.
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Well, and JPL probes would fail, forgot about that.
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