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Pinkowski: Fertilizer accounts for 5% to 7% of global emissions
“Today, fertilizer uses coal or natural gas and accounts for about five to seven percent of global emissions if you account for the manufacturing and the field application emissions.”
Pinkowski: Delhi, California offers some of the state's cheapest electricity
“Delhi, California has a large hydro dam. It's part of Turlock water and power district. And there's very low cost power. It's, I think, some of the cheapest electricity in all of California, and it's about a 90 minute drive from Fremont.”
Pinkowski: Nitricity closed an almost $10M USDA Rural Development loan
“The other thing we then went for is a USDA Rural Development loan, and we worked through the process there, and I'm very proud to say that that is closed, and so that was an almost ten million dollar Rural Development loan.”
Pinkowski: Organic and conventional fertilizers each cause about half of fertilizer emissions
“I think about half of that is organic fertilizers and about half is conventional, believe it or not.”
Pinkowski: Strait of Hormuz accounts for 38% of global urea supply
“The Persian Gulf, through the Strait of Hormuz, supplies 38% of global urea, which is the most common form of nitrogen fertilizer used in the world.”
Pinkowski: Standard California almond plot size is 75 acres
“The California standard plot size for almonds, for example, is 75 acres. It's like this rectangle that's 75 acres, and sometimes you can get 25 acre blocks, but really, like, that's what you need, and 75 acres needs a lot of product, and so the minimum pilot s…”
Pinkowski: Nitricity secured $6.5M via a grant and 48C tax credit
“We went after grants that could help cover the cost, and we got one grant and one that's helping cover the, some cost, and then we have one tax credit, a 48 C advanced manufacturing tax credit. So together, those come out to about six and a half million”