Haber-Bosch

There are the dietary environmentalists, who regard a lot of agriculture (animal agriculture especially, but all sorts of agriculture in general, especially if it depends on Haber-Bosch produced fertilizers) as being environmentally destructive, contributing to everything from global warming to eutrophication of freshwater lakes to rainforest destruction to phosphate-driven algae blooms and dead zones in the Gulf of Mexico.

Matthew Yglesias » The Brie Factor 2010

The importance of this synthesis is above all in its industrial application in the form of the Haber-Bosch method, which had been developed by Carl

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry: The Development of Modern Chemistry 2010

Latest USGS estimates say there are 1.6 billion barrels of crude oil underneath Afghanistan's sands and 15 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough oil for Afghan people to achieve total energy independence for the next 100 years, and enough natural gas to produce their demand for ammonia fertilizer for the next 300 years, using the Haber-Bosch Process.

Discourse.net: The Threat Level Remains Unchanged 2009

When Sir William Crookes asked for ways to make new fertilizers, to shore up dwindling fertilizer stocks, the Haber-Bosch process was born.

Water Water, Nor Any Drop to Drink 2011

Coal, oil, and gas allowed us to be warmer in the winter, to build an electrical grid fired more than anything else by coal (and then also by natural gas), to build a fleet of cars and modern roads, to fly in planes, to make plastics and various industrial chemicals, and rounding out this list of examples, to bring fertility to soil (using ammonia produced by the Haber-Bosch process).

Craig K. Comstock: Inconvenient? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 2010

Coal, oil, and gas allowed us to be warmer in the winter, to build an electrical grid fired more than anything else by coal (and then also by natural gas), to build a fleet of cars and modern roads, to fly in planes, to make plastics and various industrial chemicals, and rounding out this list of examples, to bring fertility to soil (using ammonia produced by the Haber-Bosch process).

Craig K. Comstock: Inconvenient? You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet 2010

In the Haber-Bosch process nitrogen is extracted from the air to form ammonia.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 2007

The challenges Ertl set himself were bold, for instance to understand the Haber-Bosch process, a reaction of huge industrial importance that has been used since the first world war without anyone knowing precisely how it worked.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 - Speed Read 2007

The approach developed by Ertl is based not least on his studies of the Haber-Bosch process, in which nitrogen is extracted from the air for inclusion in artificial fertilizers.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2007 - Press Release 2007

This year's award is to a single recipient, Gerhard Ertl, according to Andy Mitchison of Sceptical Chymist blog and an associate editor at Nature (link above) "one of the fathers of the area, famous for his seminal work on hydrogen adsorption to metal surfaces, the mechanism of the Haber-Bosch process and the oxidation of carbon monoxide on platinum".

October 2007 Maxine 2007