From Reactions.
Correction: 7:20 The electrons in this equation should have a "-" indicating negative charge.
Billions of people rely on a single, hundred-year-old chemical reaction every day: nitrogen gas + hydrogen gas → ammonia. This simple, short reaction is a hidden monster: it consumes 1% of the world’s TOTAL energy supply and releases 2% of the world’s TOTAL carbon dioxide emissions. Join George on a quest to discover whether the Haber-Bosch reaction’s time is *finally* up.
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Executive Producer:
Matthew Radcliff
Producers:
Elaine Seward
Andrew Sobey
Darren Weaver
Writer:
Andrew Sobey
Host:
George Zaidan
Scientific Consultants:
Alexandr Simonov, Ph.D.
Leila Duman, Ph.D.
Brianne Raccor, Ph.D.
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Sources:
https://cen.acs.org/environment/green-chemistry/Industrial-ammonia-production-emits-CO2/97/i24
https://cen.acs.org/environment/green-chemistry/Chemists-make-N-NH-efficient/100/i27
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg2371
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05108-y
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2015/ee/c5ee01215e
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-019-0280-0
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002207289303025K
