tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post8745464409162807235..comments2024-03-25T05:30:23.847+11:00Comments on HotWhopper: Curry and Watts - dejected, rejectedSouhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-20271218473415333142013-09-21T17:30:01.915+10:002013-09-21T17:30:01.915+10:00Yep, bill. I don't know much about chemistry m...Yep, bill. I don't know much about chemistry myself, but will point out its practical success every time: no, the conversion of lead to gold went nowhere, but who cares anyway, you cannot eat gold. Just ask King Midas. Now, about converting air to food...Martin Vermeerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04537045395760606324noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-54595073500018635632013-09-21T17:11:28.172+10:002013-09-21T17:11:28.172+10:00I recently completed Thomas Hager's 'The A...I recently completed Thomas Hager's 'The Alchemy of Air', which was quite the revelation! I literally had no idea about the whale nitrogen issue; and Hager's probably right to describe Haber and Bosch as the 2 most influential people you've never heard of!<br /><br />The thing that stuck with me most was the 'half of the nitrogen in your body had been created in synthetic fertiliser plants' statistic...billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-34303021091429680822013-09-21T13:47:55.006+10:002013-09-21T13:47:55.006+10:00Sorry to hear that, Dan. Nitrogen is a big deal. W...Sorry to hear that, Dan. Nitrogen is a big deal. We don't read so much about it in the popular press but I've noticed quite a bit on it in the literature. <br /><br />Hope you get your paper published elsewhere.Souhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08818999735123752034noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2313427464944392482.post-5539243712429653062013-09-21T11:13:33.693+10:002013-09-21T11:13:33.693+10:00We just had a paper rejected. There was nothing re...We just had a paper rejected. There was nothing really wrong with it (they said), it's just that they get so many papers they need to publish the best (and ours, while good, didn't meet their needs). <br /><br />That's a first...usually we have a whack of things to respond to, rewrite, include more data, etc. Suppose we could complain that they're suppressing our work on effects of depositional N in N-deficient soils in boreal forests because they're N-deniers.<br /><br />-danAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com