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Liquid gold: Prototype harvests valuable resource from urine (news.stanford.edu)
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[–] shplane@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

The valuable resource is fertilizer.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago

Urea and nitrate salts

[–] MysteriousSophon21@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago

Yep, urine is about 10% nitrogen which is why it's so good for plants (the N in NPK fertilizers).