Current and future role of Haber–Bosch ammonia in a carbon-free energy env(2020)
Ha!<p>As an avid gardener who who got solar panels recently, I&#x27;ve seriously considered looking deeper into this. When I spec&#x27;d out my system, I did some back of the napkin math on mining bitcoin with surplus pixies during the day, and it came something on the order of 10x more profitable than what my utility is willing to give me for those same pixies.<p>However, I don&#x27;t really use bitcoin. I do however, have an ongoing need for nitrogen fertilizers. I&#x27;ve been digging about into what it would take to drive the Haber Bosch process at a home scale. A couple of 10&#x27;s of kg of fixed nitrogen a month would be more valuable to me than what my utility is willing to pay, and I could put it right to work in the garden beds.