The US government passed laws about it. South American nations went to war over it. And the latter topic caused this to pop up in a discussion elsewhere:
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
Crappy History.
In the booming post-Industrial Revolution days of the late 19th Century, before the Haber-Bosch process of nitrogen fixation rendered it less important to industrial and agricultural processes, guano was an incredibly valuable natural resource.
The US government passed laws about it. South American nations went to war over it. And the latter topic caused this to pop up in a discussion elsewhere:
The US government passed laws about it. South American nations went to war over it. And the latter topic caused this to pop up in a discussion elsewhere:
