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Half of the world's food supply depends on this single chemical trade route.
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00:00Half of the world's food supply depends on this single chemical trade route.
00:05Billions of people are built out of air, pulled apart by intense industrial heat and pressure.
00:12Fritz Haber and Karl Bosch cracked nitrogen bonds using massive compressors, devouring fossil fuels daily.
00:19Methane gas strips hydrogen atoms away to fuse atmospheric nitrogen into synthetic ammonia fertilizer crystals.
00:26Without this synthetic breakthrough, global crop yields would drop drastically, leaving nearly half the human population without a reliable food
00:35supply.
00:35Methane molecules crack under extreme pressure, permanently altering global nitrogen cycles and doubling harvest yields.
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