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Paul Martin: "Hydrogen - The Decarbonization Problem"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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We're Half the Nitrogen Cycle on Earth, Right?

Paul Waldman: How do we know that half of the nitrogen in our cells comes directly from the Haber-Bosch? Well, I mean, it's in fact measurable. And as to that statistic of us being half the nitrogen cycle on Earth, again, that's something that you can calculate from a mass balance. That comes from a professor in Western Canada named Vaslov Smil who honestly I think is quite a difficult guy and he messes up on a few things.

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