Nitricity is using solar electricity to extract nitrogen directly from our air to produce nitric acid, the most critical nutrient in fertilizer that plants use to grow everything we humans eat. The ...
Surrounded by 2,400 hectares of tomatoes, peppers, and other vegetables near Fresno, California, the white shipping container looks small. Inside, light flashes through the porthole windows of a ...
Today, nitrogen fertilizer is made in fossil fuel-fired factories that can be thousands of miles from the nearest farms, but one California company is working on a game-changer. It produces fertilizer ...
Colorado company Agrebon Inc. and North Dakota partners are in discussions with North Dakota's two largest ethanol plants in Casselton and Hankinson to build small-scale nitrogen fertilizer factories ...
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nitricity, an agtech startup with unique technology to produce renewable nitrogen fertilizer at point-of-use, announced today the close of a $5 million Series Seed ...
Using bacteria as a source of crucial nutrients for crops may avoid the environmental problems caused by conventional chemical fertilizers. Bacteria are already being investigated for making ...
Plants are naturally “solar-powered,” but there is a carbon footprint associated with growing them as a crop. The fuel used to power tractors and other equipment is part of that footprint, but the ...