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The Birkeland–Eyde process (making fertilizer from hydro power) is actually older than Bosch-Haber (from fossil fuels), but the latter was cheaper.
by viburnum 5y ago
The Birkeland–Eyde process (making fertilizer from hydro power) is actually older than Bosch-Haber (from fossil fuels), but the latter was cheaper.
- alephnil 5y agoThat is super inefficient, and while it was an industry based on hydropower using the Birkeland-Eyde process before 1910, those factories switched to Haber-Bosch using hydrogen made with electrolysis and electricity from hydropower instead from 1927.