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Why Scientists Are Calling Ammonia the “Fuel of the Future”
And it might do it again!
What we re looking at is the equation for the
Haber-Bosch process.
To the layman, this equation is little more than a string of letters and numbers. But without it, there s a good chance neither you nor I would exist today. It s quite likely that without this equation, neither of us would have been born.
That s because without this equation, it s likely there would not have been enough food to feed our grandparents let alone any children.
Commercial agriculture requires fertilizers. Prior to the 20th century, the most common fertilizer used to grow food was manure. And one of the most important sources of that manure was bird and bat guano, which was found in remote tropical locations.