- Henning brand was an alchemist who wanted to make gold from urine. He boiled the urine down to a waxy material, he didn't know what it was but he made claims that it improved your memory, your sex life etc. while he was parading it around Europe. The material was phosphorus
- Very reactive and poisonous
- Limited supply of phosphorus
- Phosphate is a huge market - $76 billion, most of it is for fertilizer.
- Problematic - 80% of phosphate used by farmers is washed out into rivers, the ocean. It's wasted.
- 2008 crisis had the phosphate price spike, which also made food prices spike
- We will hit peak production in 2033
- Morroco and Western Sahara has the highest amount of phosphate.
- They have a 61-mile long conveyer belt that goes to the ocean for shipping.
- Urine is sterile, poop is filthy
- There is the possibility for sustainable phosphate from urine. Large fertilizer companies are experimenting with this
- There are a few farms that are using human urine as fertilizer, the shown highly successful.
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