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Yes, my memory was not accurate and I should have specified Haber-Bosch Process & Carl Bosch[1] instead of Haber Process & Fritz Haber.

Fritz Haber was originally motivated by Germany's war objectives to kill people via poison gas and explosives.

The Haber Process[1] was a new way to manufacture ammonia in large quantities.

I would compare Wittgenstein's legacy to Fritz Haber -- a great man, inarguably greater than Wittgenstein.

Apparently, Carl Bosch's refinements to the original Haber Process had the priority goal of ramping up Germany's war munitions instead of feeding the world.

Now, the Haber process is mass producing fertilizer and feeding the world.

Are you talking about the hydrogen feeding into the Haber process?

Cycling (or part-provisioning of) nutrients without using animals or without using methane and other fossil fuels (think Haber Bosch) is a mystery to me absent animals on the farm.

To do this requires fixing nitrogen, which can only be done by certain bacteria, plants that have a symbiotic relationship with them, or the industrial Haber process for making ammonia.

We have (usually) had enough, not just for decades, but for ten thousand years—ever since agriculture took off, and even more so since the industrial revolution and the Haber process.

The Haber Process allowed us to get out of agriculture (and thus have time to make all of these breakthroughs) and then electrification (courtesy coal/gas) got us out of having to do manual labor.

There are a few examples of people working on the great problems of the day and succeeding, among them: Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch, who developed the method to produce ammonia for fertilizer still essential today, probably essential for feeding our billions.

Calomiris and Haber ("Fragile By Design") have run the natural experiment between the U.

I highly recommend the book, "The Alchemy of Air" about the creation of the Haber-Bosch process.

Calomiris/Haber wrote "Fragile By Design" in which the U.

It's often useful to remember that the New York Times had Judith Miller and the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek had Joyce Haber.

Even doing this would not avoid the need for the Haber-Bosch process.

Haber didn’t spend a dime on tuition or fees.