Comments by "David H" (@DavidHalko) on "This New Discovery Produces Fertilizer From SMOG!" video.

  1. As long as we have flowers 💐 next to the house & yards with grass, it means we no longer have to fertilize our lawns & flower gardens
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  2. He said 3M was a dominant vendor for granules. They seem to offer a bunch of different granule types, including highly reflective materials
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  3. “air pollution…” Once the NOx creates fertilizer from rooftops, more CO2 will be consumed by plants 🌱 & trees 🌳 🌲, which is a good thing. The ash from burning coal is almost gone in the US, resulting in continental warming. Cleaning the air from coal ash raised the temperature about a degree, but we can breath easier, so I guess that’s a good trade off. Now they talk about spreading new crushed up reflective rock in the atmosphere, by air plane ✈️, to reduce temperatures. Talk about air pollution. Makes me wonder why they are not talking about expanding coal power, remove scrubbers, and collect energy while we re-cool North America! 😂
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  4. Right… but water runoff from the roof can make the need for additional fertilizer obsolete, actually reducing that problem
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  5. Hey @NeilBlanchard  - this is a problem with fertilizer, in general, not a specific type of fertilizer. Water runoff from synthetic or natural fertilizer both potentially cause water 💧 problems. Without fertilizing, food production is effectively halved. 3.5 of 7 billion people in the world are fed through fertilized land. No one wants dead ☠️ zones, but more progressive states, like Georgia US, force people to build water 💧 retaining areas to compensate, end direct runoff of water 💧 to sewers, and encourage better water conservation policies. Once better water conservation occurs, much of the dead ☠️ zones issues will naturally resolve themselves. Converting fertilizers to natural processes like roofing, ends additional application, and runoff redirected to green areas will help sink more CO2 & build thicker turf to replenish our soils more effectively.
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  6.  @NeilBlanchard  - “Organic farming does not have a fertilizer runoff problem” 2015 study says organic fertilizers reduce runoff problems by ~15-18%, reduce is not eliminate. Too much chicken manure, for example, can lead to nitrate runoff, even if composted correctly. Other things like Epsom Salts, in small quantities, can help with blossom production, plant wall thickness, deter pests, chlorophyll production, etc. This is inorganic. Of course, proper quantities of everything is important. Best to test the soil. “fertilizer we use kills… the living organisms in the soil” If that was the case, then nitrogen fixing bacteria 🦠 would not be alive to create plant 🌱improvements in 3-5 days of application. Some damage occurs if too much is used, or if exclusively used for long periods of time. “ruining the soil” can be reversed by adding organic material. Heavy metals in Chinese grown produce 🍉 🍎 & herbs 🌿 may be such a sign of over-aggressively using inorganic fertilizers. Fertilizers can encourage uptake of heavy metals. Similar issues are seen with with supplement & pharmaceutical precursors & active ingredients… many come from China 🇨🇳 (They show up on mass spectrometers, but only prescription based products are tested frequently, repetitive human analysis is largely why they cost so much.) “Adding more of the problematic fertilizer”… plants 🪴 can fix nitrogen using bacteria from organic & inorganic fertilizers, as well as from lightning ⛈️ created nitrates. As long as the nutrients exist in reasonable quantities, all is good in the world. Some soils are naturally missing inorganic elements like Selenium, which can result in aneurisms for mammals eating 🍽️ produce exclusively grown on the soil. Naturally composted materials from that region, will not fix such deficiencies, without correcting with inorganic soil supplementation. “erosion… pumping” I think there is a place for inorganic work on the soil. Also, pumping from underground aquifers, without replenishing them, is problematic. I keep seeing articles about destroying dams lately… aggregated waters💧replenish aquifers. If politicians really cared about aquifers, they would not be blowing up dams across North America, instead they are contributing to the problem of aquifer over pumping, by reducing replenishment. Before this, a previous politicians tried to gain control over farmer water retention ponds, which often helped eliminate fertilizer runoff and recharge aquifers. The response was for farmers to rid themselves of these beneficial features on their farms, to remove the liabilities, but an election fixed that issue. The runoff & aquifer problems are real, but it seems politicians are doing everything they can to throw the baby out with the bath water, make the problem worse, and penalize farmers who are trying to resolve these problems on their own. There are some reasonable common sense solutions, which can be encouraged.
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  7. Probably won’t see anything… bird 🦢 poop 💩 and water runoff may have similar effects underneath
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  8. I guess it depends on how much smog there is & how much rain there is.
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  9. Very few that I am aware of Most people not on city water have wells
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  10. The amount of materials to make EV’s replace ice cars are not strip mined in necessary in quantities, yet. To replace every car in the UK, an island, the entire world’s copper supply would be needed for a year, for the vast amount of copper needed for motor windings & wires. We’re not even talking about batteries 🔋 Hopefully, this can become more widely considered, especially in rural & suburbs, where lawns & flower gardens exist. This is probably not helpful in the hellscapes of very dense urban cities, where there is very little life besides humans 👨 👩 , rats 🐀, and cockroaches 🪳
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  11.  @James_Ryan  - tell the stupid politicians that. Too many dumb politicians aligned with wicked politicians who want to reduce the freedom of poor people to re-enslave them on new plantations.
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  12. People buy unbelievable amounts of fertilizer for their lawns & gardens. This could basically eliminate it, as long as runoff goes to the green areas of the yards. In many states, it is illegal to run your rain water directly to the sidewalks & driveways. In my state, rain runoff must be directed to green area, and new construction [for decades] required building of water 💦 retention areas which must fill up before being allowed to go to sewers whenever a parking lot is built… not only for commercial, but even for churches. Can’t even wash your cars 🚗 & legally run that water into the street! Usually, progressive locales have such building code. Heck, even Georgia has progressive water code like this, so one has to be in a pretty backward place to have otherwise! 😂
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  13. Or suburbs with grass or flower gardens or vegetable gardens Super carrots 🥕 after a rain!🌧️
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  14. The air we breathe inside comes from the outside 😅 But yes, we spend most of our lives indoors 😢… the clothing is a gimmick
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  15. We buy fertilizer for our gardens & lawns, which sink the CO2 from the air. Having the roof create fertilizer could eliminate this need, all the energy used in creating & transporting & applying fertilizer every season. There are a lot of win’s here, forget about decreasing air pollution aspect, the air pollution becomes a natural resource! (Nothing we can do with the NOx coming from the third world, which is becoming the dominate problem, as The West outsources manufacturing to them… The West does not solve pollution problems, just shifts it, then congratulates themselves for unemploying all those first world workers & their reduction in pollution… this is a good attempt as solving a problem The West created & shifted.)
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  16. They have R&D people that they pay, in order to research things like this, test it continuously for environmental effects, and they will be sued if something goes wrong… so the patent provides a way to recover these costs After the patent expires, the kinks are worked out, the lawsuits have subsided… then that is a good time for others who don’t do such research 🔬 & take risk to profit from their effort & risk.
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  17. Shingled metal, with granules? This may still be an option.
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  18. It was a good commercial, for sure! 😂
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  19. Carbon tax is dumb… just a way to make local nations poorer, by extracting more wealth from them, for doing absolutely nothing, and shift that money to the Far East, after they bought politicians.
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  20. But hey, is makes our lives easier [while we are still alive] with nonstick cookware, water-repellent clothing, stain resistant fabrics & carpets, firefighting foams, and products that resist grease, water, and oil. Can’t drive around in a Prius or Tesla without that stain resistant seating & carpeting! 😉
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  21. My large roof cost $10k - when I saw the kid drive up in the BMW & try to sell me a $25k roof, I was suspicious Now, a metal shingled roof, that costs a lot more than asphalt shingled roofing, and may be worth that price at 50+ year life expectancy
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