Richard Ha writes:

It’s Father’s Day, and I’m thinking about my Pop and what he always told me: “Find three solutions for every problem, and then find one more just in case.”

I’m thinking, on this Father’s Day, that it’s appropriate to talk about the “one more solution.”

Excess or “curtailed” electricity is thrown away. What if we used curtailed electricity to make fertilizer?

Three years ago, my farmer friend Steve Gruhne in Iowa was talking about the ammonia and nitrogen cycle.

Nitrogen is a building block of protein. We can take the throw-away electricity and run it through water. Hydrogen and oxygen will bubble up. Take the hydrogen and combine it with nitrogen in the air and you get ammonia fertilizer. Just think – nitrogen fertilizer made from local resources!

Pop said there are a thousand reasons why no can. We are looking for the one reason why CAN!

Happy Fathers Day, Guys.