@BenchandBaleStealth12
Your channel gives me hope for humanity. Keep doing your thing! Shutting down fools and educating plainly 🎉
@LargestLuke
Oh man what perfect timing! I was JUST gonna synthesize some ammonia!
@arnavp412
As a chemical engineering student, this is spot on
@puernatura8998
At 2:20, the names are the wrong way around. Though the two men look similar, the man on the left is Carl Bosch, and the man on the right is Fritz Haber.
@kanishkmukherjee08
I may be grossly incorrect, but I think Haber and Bosch's images are wrongly labelled in the thumbnail
@TheGODBean-l5o
A long ago in eastern Prussia Young men with great ambitions rise So who can tell me who can say for sure Which one will win the Nobel Prize? It was a golden age for science The kaiserreich would hold the key And as the conflict came and tensions rose The manifest of the 93
@WordAte
I write sci fi stories. And one of my undergraduate degrees is a science degree, social science. Don't @ me bro. Haha. Anyways, I watch a lot of science channels, including cosmology, physics, anthropology, biology... But Youtube never suggests your science videos. It only suggests your debunking videos. While I like to watch a conman get taken down a peg or two every now and then, I am always seeking to learn something new. I spend at least 3 hours a week watching science videos. I watch a debunking video or two once a month. I am going to make a conscious effort to watch your science videos more often. Cheers. Love your work.
@Nivola1953
I’ve seen a chart of human population in time, we reached 1B around the second half of XIX century. The Haber Bosch process was invented in the first decade of the XX century. Together with advancement in medical care, this war invention became the main catalyst that allowed exponential population growth by supplying more food, in about 100 years population jumped from 1 to 8 Billion. When I see the hygienists propose to use only “organic” food, that is grown without fertilisers, my question is, do you want to kill 7/8 of population and go back 150 years, just because someone said, without evidence, that it’s healthier.
@Geek37664
I can see why your channel is so epically popular. While I prefer your takedown videos of charlatans and science deniers, your tutorials are worth their weight in palladium.
@darksoul624
Your channel is a gem! Thank you!
@zbz5505
Man... I learnt of this in chemistry. But just today in the exam I forgot it's name. What are the odds it came back to haunt me on youtube.
@tylerhill6770
Damn, what a coincidence. Recently the Dr. STONE anime got to the point where they encountered an antagonist who brags about having a completed Haber-Bosch plant and then just 2 weeks later Dave uploads a video about it lol So cool.
@azuriasbbs
Thank you Dave for making me get into chemistry again you're just awesome
@Buczo997
Very small error in your illustration at 2:25 the guy on the left is Bosch the guy on the right is Haber
@Corvo-X51
this one is actually pretty interesting! thanks prof dave!
@Manimmut
Pefectly timed post ngl
@khadijachikri5289
since when did this channel exist? I should've discovered it a lot sooner !!!
@sweetlane1813
Thank you! I would add, that one of the simplest solutions to the problem of carbon dioxide emissions during the process is to react CO2 that comes from the steam reforming process (the main process used to produce hydrogen in industrial level quantities - and the one used at ammonia plants) with ammonia to produce urea. Since the plants would require not only nitrogen but carbon as well, and urea is much easier to handle and store than liquified ammonia.
@Paraselene_Tao
10:10 It's funny how the pretty diagram shows green ammonia being made from renewable power, and I was thinking about how this is yet another serious reason we might need nuclear power for the foreseeable future. There's simply no other power source like nuclear: clean, safe, stable, extremely dense (power/area), very high power output with great potential for direct heat used in chemical processes (there's at least one NPP planning to be built in the USA for chemical processing), great jobs & work environment. I wish I had worked at an NPP. I'm a YIMBY when it comes to the topic. Nuclear waste isn't a real problem so long as it's properly managed; in fact, many kinds of nuclear waste are extremely valuable for medical therapies, space projects, and research. Also, we can make gen IV NPPs that are walkaway safe, extremely resistant to natural disasters & attacks, and use isotopes that can't easily or possibly be used for nuclear weapons. At this point, any reader can tell that I'm very pro-nuclear energy, but I'm also very supportive of renewables and batteries and all the many other changes we can make to better our world. Anyhow, yeah, I'm not sure where exactly you got that pretty diagram, but I noticed how it shows renewables powering chemical processes (Haber-Bosch this time), and it just got my noodle thinking about nuclear energy. The major problems with NPPs are the cost and time to build. I honestly think we've allowed the nuclear energy sector to be over regulated. Just for a minute, imagine if fossil fuels had ever been as regulated as nuclear energy is. It would make fossil fuels totally unfeasible. The radioactive molecules from fossil fuel smoke stacks would need to be catalyzed or otherwise captured. Heck, even the exhausts from our ICEs in our cars should be captured in large tanks and sequestered somewhere halfway safe. It's absurd what the fossil fuel industry has gotten away with. Almost complete deregulation for a century or more before they even got a bit under control. What a farce. Anyhow, yeah, it would be nice to see faster and less expensive NPP building in the USA. I sometimes imagine a big project in the Bay Area. Instead of all these renewables that require dozens of square miles for intermittent power, I imagine one powerful station that powers the whole Bay Area and well beyond. Its footprint is maybe half a square mile to one square mile. It has maybe 10-20 MSRs using thorium or another non-weaponizeable isotopes. This massive facility doesn't just provide power for a highly electrified Bay Area. It exports energy to the rest of the state and perhaps out-of-state. It powers a massive desalination plant that doesn't harm the SF Bay in any ecological way but provides millions of gallons daily of fresh water to the Bay Area. This massive power plant also runs chemical processes like the Haber-Bosch process, chlorine & sodium hydroxide processing, aluminum, cement, glass, metal recycling, and more that use a lot of electricity. Also, the plant will produce net-neutral fuels for airplanes or even regular vehicles. Also, the plant will be built to handle wildfire, earthquakes, floods, attacks, and so on. Another point: the desalination plant works synergystically with the chlorine & sodium hydroxide production because the desal's saltwater brine is used to make the chlorine and sodium hydroxide. Two more things: 1, the plant decarbonizes the bay area's water and atmosphere with Direct Water Capture of CO2 and Direct Air Capture of CO2 (I think DWC is more promising because the amount of CO2 in a liter of water is far greater than a liter of standard air); and 2, we can charge massive batteries with excess power (not limited to lithium battery chemistry (I'm thinking gravity batteries from the water reservoirs that we will make with the desal plant, plus the gravity batteries can be part of the pressure to feed to feed the desal plant). I can go on and on about this. It's not meant to be a techno-solutionist utopia. I'm just imagining what we can build with current tech. I should note that this project would probably be about $100 billion and would get a ton of pushback from radiophobes & chemophobes. 😅 Also, while the NPP might be under 1 square mile, the water reservoirs could be several square miles large. Finally, what I'm imagining would probably take a decade to build—even if everything moved quickly. Anyhow, it's all a daydream of sorts that I like to share sometimes.
@joe-ib1wn