{"id":229139,"date":"2026-01-16T01:31:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/do-it-yourself-ammonia-production-renewable-powered-system-uses-calcium-to-reduce-emissions-and-scale-for-farmers"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:31:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:31:39","slug":"do-it-yourself-ammonia-production-renewable-powered-system-uses-calcium-to-reduce-emissions-and-scale-for-farmers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/do-it-yourself-ammonia-production-renewable-powered-system-uses-calcium-to-reduce-emissions-and-scale-for-farmers","title":{"rendered":"Do-it-yourself ammonia production: Renewable-powered system uses calcium to reduce emissions and scale for farmers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/do-it-yourself-ammonia-production-renewable-powered-system-uses-calcium-to-reduce-emissions-and-scale-for-farmers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The last time you scrubbed a streaky window or polished a porcelain appliance, you probably used a chemical called ammonia.<\/p>\n<p>Also known as ammonium hydroxide when mixed with water, ammonia is more than a common household cleaner. More than 170 million metric tons of it are produced globally every year, with most of it ending up as fertilizer for corn, cotton and soybeans.<\/p>\n<p>UIC researchers are scaling up a system for farmers to produce ammonia in their own backyards. The method, which uses renewable electricity and Earth\u2019s natural resources, appears in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pnas.org\/doi\/10.1073\/pnas.2513960122\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last time you scrubbed a streaky window or polished a porcelain appliance, you probably used a chemical called ammonia. Also known as ammonium hydroxide when mixed with water, ammonia is more than a common household cleaner. More than 170 million metric tons of it are produced globally every year, with most of it ending [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229139","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}