{"id":131013,"date":"2021-11-21T16:22:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T00:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/replacing-carbon-fuel-with-nitrogen-chemists-discover-new-way-to-harness-energy-from-ammonia"},"modified":"2021-11-21T16:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T00:22:49","slug":"replacing-carbon-fuel-with-nitrogen-chemists-discover-new-way-to-harness-energy-from-ammonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/replacing-carbon-fuel-with-nitrogen-chemists-discover-new-way-to-harness-energy-from-ammonia","title":{"rendered":"Replacing Carbon Fuel With Nitrogen: Chemists Discover New Way To Harness Energy From Ammonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/replacing-carbon-fuel-with-nitrogen-chemists-discover-new-way-to-harness-energy-from-ammonia.gif\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A research team at the University of Wisconsin <strong>\u2013 <\/strong>Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery of this technique, which uses a metal catalyst and releases, rather than requires, energy, was reported on November 8, 2021, in <em>Nature Chemistry<\/em> and has received a provisional patent from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world currently runs on a carbon fuel economy,\u201d explains Christian Wallen, an author of the paper and a former postdoctoral researcher in the lab of UW\u2013Madison chemist John Berry. \u201cIt\u2019s not a great economy because we burn hydrocarbons, which release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. We don\u2019t have a way to close the loop for a true carbon cycle, where we could transform carbon dioxide back into a useful fuel.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research team at the University of Wisconsin \u2013 Madison has identified a new way to convert ammonia to nitrogen gas through a process that could be a step toward ammonia replacing carbon-based fuels. The discovery of this technique, which uses a metal catalyst and releases, rather than requires, energy, was reported on November 8, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}