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Prasanth Gupta

Physics researcher

Sep 28, 2026

4:50
Refrigeration, cleaning, chemical manufacturing, explosives, and increasingly it's being talked about as a fuel source.
4:57
By 2050, by many reports, the demand for ammonia as an energy vector is more prominent than as a fertilizer.
5:06
Currently, we produce 200 million tons.
5:09
It's already the second largest chemical produced.
5:11
But by 2050, it can be as high as 600 million tons, with nearly two-thirds of it going towards fertilizers.
5:19
shipping, decarbonizing maritime transport, solving dry air challenges in New Zealand, could even go to heavy industries making steel, cement.
5:29
So ammonia as an energy vector is equally promising.

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22:10
And if they want to zoom in even further on the nitrogen, to look at what's happening atom by atom before and after the reaction, well then, it's iron beam time again.

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