The Most Important Technological Breakthrough of our Lifetime

This Video is from the Youtube channel: “Hoocho”. 

Hoocho Showcases the Most Important Technological Breakthrough of Our Lifetime

The preeminent Haber–Bosch process has been feeding humankind for more than one hundred years. Are electrochemical pathways for ammonia synthesis able to compete with it in the future? Electrocatalysts, electrolytes and novel cell design may be key.

 

Peter Grant
 

  • Toney Niko says:

    I’m optimistic, yet I’ve learned there are often 2nd or 3rd order consequences that may not be readily apparent for years. That being said, the flip side is that every new iteration usually gets better, safe, and addresses the previous known issues. Fingers crossed this advancement won’t be locked behind “bureaucratic red tape”.

    • Steve l says:

      For sure. Humans have a habit of making solutions to problems that make more, but different, problems in the future. Burning fossil fuels was a solution and enabled a lot of things. Also made some problems for ourselves. What happens when we suck huge amounts of nitrogen out of the atmosphere. The atmosphere seems to be fairly important!

  • Recon Halcyon says:

    Great insight and awareness. Learning and understanding how our food economy produces and distributes goods has been a struggle. Would love to see more of this. Thank you Hoocho!

  • Steve l says:

    Thanks for sharing this amazing info. Could truly be a game changer. Let’s try and change the game more wisely than we did with fossil fuels.

  • Ultimate says:

    Would love to see Diy units or kits being sold so small farmers can also produce their own fertilizer independently

  • Simon Brusel says:

    Mindblowing invention! Thanks for bringing this to my and other peoples attention.

  • fancy O says:

    South Africa held a green hydrogen summit I think last week or the week before. We are determined to become a huge ammonia producer from green hydrogen. We are already expanding a SASOL green hydrogen plant that generates 150kg of hydrogen per day to 5.5tn per day from mid next year. So the aim is to tackle issues you’ve raised but yes even this new technology seems amazing especially if the price tag will be afforded by close to all farmers. I think in the future most farmers will get their chemicals from sustainable green sources, things are really changing behind the scenes.

  • James S says:

    I grow my veg organically, and it supplies about 2 of the 12 months of my intake.

    I live in a single level dwelling with about ~8 months of non-growing season. I prep for the next season growing my starts indoors for a few months before transplanting into my garden

    • Tim Page says:

      I grow my own food too as much as I can. It’s difficult to keep most of my harvest to last . I can my vegetables garden harvest to get me through the fall . But around January I’m needing some fresh produce and head to the store lol

  • jStrikes Mechanical says:

    This is great. It wont be long before full scale hydroponics become suitable for almost everyone, even farmers with alot of land. Thats big.

  • Michelle McCarthy says:

    Interesting Video, thank you! we need local farmers per percentage of population. Farmers inside towns & cities, with greenhouses for spring/winter/fall. Your option is a Fantastic alternative 🙂 but by growing food in the ground I believe the veg. are more nutrient dense? If farming is done with compost it also increases the soils vitality. Science, Mother nature & a willingness to learn/share makes an Abundance for all❤ Thank you for your research, your Veg’s look amazing!

  • Jase says:

    What a great video! The content mixed with the editing made a complex subject easy to understand.

  • psylenced says:

    Really love this style of video. Hopefully you can do a few similar ones in the future.

  • Cat Hamster says:

    Nice 1 Mr Hoocho. Great insight into a interesting process getting round our hydrocarbon addiction. Funny how once again Lithium is the answer to our problems. Maybe the oil companies will just buy up the lithium reserves as a tilt on their current control of the worlds energy resources.

  • Moqo Yamses says:

    Amazing video, glad you didn’t skip over the growing and eating local. Hard to understand the scale of industrial farming, but society wouldn’t be what it is without it. I still think having more smaller scale permaculture minded growers can help, but it likely won’t work for everyone everywhere. Great news and would love to see where this leads! Exciting times ahead

  • Patron's Patron says:

    Thank you Hoochos for bringing some positivity and light into our disfunctional world.

  • Nick Piper says:

    Love this kind of informative video mate, keep them coming!

  • Mark Ottaway says:

    This was very interesting, and when you consider Tractor EV’s have been available for a few years and we are on the cusp of Electric trucking (Not just battery powerd). The could just start to improve a little.

  • DanB Outdoors says:

    This is super cool!

    I work for a Renewable Energy company here in Aus, so this was super interesting from a work perspective too.

    I was at a big energy convention this week down in Melbourne and there’s some pretty cool technology for decentralising residential power coming very very soon. Paired with this kind of invention, we’re getting closer to being able to be self sufficient

  • Dave Hey says:

    Awesome video. Thanks for pulling this all together. It is a good start. Now,To take this colorless gas from the process you described into a liquid to then be combined into the final product may still be beyond the capacity of local farmers. But it does speak to a piece of the challenge.

  • icarus901 says:

    I just want to say that you can do this *today* using a solar panel, inverter, basic aquarium air pump, a couple of beakers full of water and crushed limestone/shell/etc, and a transformer normally used to create a spark for oil/gas furnaces. This uses the birkeland eyde reaction (less efficiently, but good enough that it can be done in any small greenhouse) to generate nitric acid bubbled through water to dissolve calcium carbonate and produce calcium nitrate.

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