Naptha rises to highest since 2022
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So I have made a Mori Ougai fertiliser brand with an advertisement twice with the same script I wrote in 30 mins 2 years ago and remember to this day with the exact same iconic slogan.
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You know when you’re watching random disaster documentaries (well, videos) on youtube? And sometimes you just …
I’m watching a short Raven’s Eye video on the 1921 Oppau explosion:
I hadn’t heard of this event until recently. Which struck me as odd when I watched it, because I have heard of several similar events and never heard of this one, despite it being possibly the largest. Essentially, the Oppau explosion was an explosion in the fertiliser storage of a German chemical plant. Specifically, ammonium nitrate. You know. The stuff from the 2020 Beirut explosion. And the 1947 Texas City disaster. Aka the stuff that semi-regularly flattens large chunks of cities.
And it’s just. It was 1921. None of those other events had happened yet. The ammonium nitrate was being stored in a mix with ammonium sulphate that they’d been told rendered it inert. As he says in the video, it’s easy in hindsight to criticise, but they genuinely were working with the information they had at the time. Just. Still.
Because ammonium nitrate gets damp. And when it gets damp it starts to cake together. And because it was being stored in a multi-thousand tonne mass in a storage silo. And because trying to get it back out of that caked multi-thousand tonne mass was difficult and dangerous by hand. They decided …
And. Look. It worked. For literally thousands of times before the disaster, it worked just fine. Nothing bad happened. But still.
It’s just a moment, you know, when you listen to people needing to mine out ammonium nitrate, the substance responsible for four out of twelve of the largest accidental non-nuclear explosions by magnitude, a full third, and they decide to do it by using mining explosives on it. Casually and regularly. It just, it takes a minute to grasp that, you know?
And, again. 1921. Texas hadn’t happened yet. Beirut hadn’t happened yet. Tianjin hadn’t happened yet. They did this hundreds of times with no ill-effect. Best guess was they just hit a bad pocket within the mass. But.
10% of that 4500 tonne mass went up. Only 10%. And it vaporised the entire southern end of the factory. There was a crater 300ft by 410ft by 62ft deep. It’s the fourth largest non-nuclear explosion humanity has ever been responsible for. Everything higher on the list has actual military ammunition or high explosives involved. This was fertiliser. You would not know the difference. The poor bastards who triggered that mining charge did not know about it. They did not have time. They pushed a button and woke up dead.
Sometimes, you know, you hear something, and you have to just … look at us, at humanity, and just wonder …
It really is a wonder, sometimes, that we are still here. As a species. You know? You’ve just got to wonder at it, sometimes.
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Ground broken in Gode: Dangote Group launches a $2.5bn fertiliser complex set to produce 3m tonnes of urea a year and power farm growth. #Dangote #Ethiopia #Fertiliser #ValidUpdates
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Tally me bananas (for research ot only breakfast)
From:
https://www.mekongeye.com/2025/02/17/banana-soil-bust-2
This article from Mekong Eye I want to read later, so since evernote is not working I am putting this here for now:
“OUDOMXAY & BOKEO, LAOS – Northern Laos is experiencing soil degradation after years of monocropping and widespread chemical use on banana farms operated by Chinese entrepreneurs.
Thiep doesn’t remember the name of…
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Fertiliser factory in Auby, French Flanders region of France
French vintage postcard
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High fertiliser use drastically reduces flowers and pollinators while increasing grassland yields according to a 150yearlong ecological study.
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Cutting through the bull****. Cost effective fertiliser strategies for high performance turf grass.
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أقوي سماد طبيعي مجاني موجود عندك بالمنزل🪴يقوي ويغذي نباتاتك وتأثيره ملحوظ🌿لا تشتري أسمدة بعد اليوم
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Suddenly, the two occupants would state they had to leave. Remembering their questions, Wilcox offered to get them a bag of fertilizer to take with them to study.
Interestingly, Wilcox would return to the area of his encounter later that afternoon with a bag of fertilizer.
He left the bag near a tree next to the spot the UFO was hovering that morning.
When he returned the following morning, the fertilizer was no longer there.
The Gary Wilcox Occupant Encounter – The Fertilizer Case - UFO Insight
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Fermented fruit fertiliser
Gather up your fallen and damaged fruit.
Anything damaged can be used.
Having damaged or fallen fruit in your garden isn’t necessarily a bad thing. You can extract more goodness from your fallen fruit befor eyou feed it to youtr chooks or add it to your compost. Just ferment it!
This info was originally included in a little article I wrote fro Grass Roots Magazine No. 273 Oct/Nov 2022 called,…
