The End of Haber Bosch
Discover the single most important chemical reaction on Earth, and why we need to kill it.
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The End of Haber Bosch
Season 9 Episode 9 | 13m 50s
Discover the single most important chemical reaction on Earth, and why we need to kill it.
Billions of people rely on a single, hundred-year-old chemical reaction every day: the Haber-Bosch process. This simple, short reaction consumes 1% of the world’s energy supply and releases 2% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. Chemists have been trying to come up with a fundamentally better way to fix nitrogen for over a century. Have they finally succeeded?
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The End of Haber Bosch
Season 9 Episode 9 | 13m 50s
Billions of people rely on a single, hundred-year-old chemical reaction every day: the Haber-Bosch process. This simple, short reaction consumes 1% of the world’s energy supply and releases 2% of the world’s carbon dioxide emissions. Chemists have been trying to come up with a fundamentally better way to fix nitrogen for over a century. Have they finally succeeded?
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