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#86 Carl Bosch and Fritz Haber (A Genius and a Doomed Tycoon)

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The Importance of Synthetic Fuels

Bosch had monopoly on the Haber Bosch processes over after World War I. Now all chemical companies in the world are using it. So he's got to come over with a new thing. Synthetic fuels is like an even harder problem. And they wind up running because at the time, let me back up. Around this time, the world was convinced that we hit peak oil. That everything's going to run dry. It turns so they started doing synthetic fuel.

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