Farewell, Haber Bosch! – A New, Cleaner Way to Create Fertilizers (More Interesting Than You’d Think!)
Every day, billions of people depend on a century-old chemical reaction to create a large part of the world’s food supply: combining nitrogen gas and hydrogen gas to create ammonia, and down the line, fertilizers. But this seemingly innocent reaction has a dark side. It devours a whopping 1% of the world’s entire energy supply […]