The End of Haber Bosch

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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. You might also like other Reactions videos: This Toxic Gas is Responsible for Almost All Our Food: https://youtu.be/YnTYn0lr_mM How Can Fertilizer Explode? https://youtu.be/-SeT3N3A19c Why Calcium Hydroxide + Corn is Key to Understanding Western Civilization (and Tacos) https://youtu.be/_LKe9hmXdvM This is made of plants. Why do we call it “meat”? https://youtu.be/0PdLHZVQYQs This Chemistry life hack is a lie: https://youtube.com/shorts/FOgO_EuaYsQ?feature=share Credits: 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. Executive in Charge for PBS: Maribel Lopez Director of Programming for PBS: Gabrielle Ewing Assistant Director of Programming for PBS: John Campbell Reactions is a production of the #AmericanChemicalSociety. © 2023 American Chemical Society. All rights reserved. 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://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24242766/#:~:text=Collisionally%20activated%20dissociation%20and%20neutralization,OH2. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-019-0280-0 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002207289303025K https://doi.org/10.1038/s41929-020-0455-8