Minnesota facility launches renewable fertilizer production
An experimental tractor designed to use ammonia as fuel sits below a wind turbine that provides electricity to make the ammonia at the University of Minnesota West Central Research Center near Morris.
Dan Gunderson | MPR News 2019
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Minnesota farmers spend up to $1 billion annually on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer with nearly all of those dollars flowing out of state. A new green ammonia plant in Morris is looking to change that.
MPR News host Clay Masters spoke with Michael Reese, the green ammonia research lead at the University of Minnesota, about how this facility is producing fertilizer with renewable energy.
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