> 2022

And that was specifically due to the (ongoing) Russian Invasion of Ukraine. After the 2022 spike, most large countries began building alternative supply chains to reduce impacts from these kinds of hits.

For example, the US and Europe largely doesn't use urea unlike Brazil, India, and China.

This is also why Asian countries have been investing heavily in Hydrogen energy despite HN's hate boner to the technology.

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> Is it really hydrogen energy if your plan for the hydrogen gas is turning it into ammonia? Would give you another use for it, I suppose

The whole point of building a hydrogen energy market is becuase hydrogen electrolyzers are dual use, and the methodology to leverage and produce "green" ammonia is similar to "green" hydrogen.

A non-LNG method to mass produce ammonia has always been called out in most countries Hydrogen energy roadmaps such as Japan [0], China [1], and India [2].

[0] - https://grjapan.com/sites/default/files/content/articles/fil...

[1] - https://rmi.org/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2022/09/china...

[2] - https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/1033081/...