There must be some useful byproduct which uses the N.

Actually, it's looking as if any carbohydrate can be converted to a hydrocarbon without too much energy. But the equations must be so damned complicated that I'm thinking one would have to run a batch, and then see what came out. Or use one of the computers on a particle accelerator to figure out what may come about.

Wonder if it's worth it. Would be nice to be able to have a sort of silo where one threw in stuff at the top and got fuel and lubricants out the bottom, and ammonium nitrate out of a spigot on the side somewhere.

Then ADM could get legislation passed through a Republican Congress which would decree that US weapons will in the future use only a combination of ammonium nitrate and diesel fuel from agricultural products purchased from large companies.

Arf