And this, of course, is only a tiny part of the bigger picture. This fertiliser plant is actually of middling size by global standards; many of those in the U.S. and China are considerably bigger, so would require even more power from even more wind turbines (or solar panels or hydroelectricity plants) if they were to go green. Moreover, fertiliser production is only one slice of the industrial cake. The manufacture of green steel will gobble up even more hydrogen. Such things might seem beside the point but actually they are precisely the point. These industrial processes account for even
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