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eric blair on December 14, 2005 - 5:12pm

Don't look behind you, but its another Peak to worry about.

Peak phosphorus

Via http://www.internal.eawag.ch/~maurer/abstracts/09larsen.html

Current fertilizer production and use consume limited resources and harm the environment. At current extraction rates, reserves of phosphate rock that are economically recoverable with today's technology will last less than 100 years, and the reserve base will last less than 300 years

And give a link to:

http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity

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LJR on December 14, 2005 - 7:49pm

Now there's a good reason not to use it in Iraq. We're running out.

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eric blair on December 14, 2005 - 10:44pm

The downside is - if the USGS is "right" about the limited nature of phosphate, higher energy costs will collide with industrial demand and change the "economically recoverable" timeframe.

Whoops.

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