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NitroVolt is helping farmers make their own fertilizer using renewable power
The majority of the world’s ammonia is produced using the 115-year-old Haber-Bosch process, which is heavily reliant on natural gas. NitroVolt could change that.
When Suzanne Zamany Andersen arranged her trip to greenhouse grower Koppert Cress in the Netherlands, she thought she would just be pitching her startup’s device, which turns electricity and air into ammonia, a widely used fertilizer. The startup raised €2.75 million seed round led by BackingMinds and EIFO, the Danish sovereign wealth fund, to help build the pilot and hire staff to make it happen. “Over the past three years, more than half the farmers we talked to either have solar on site, despite the fact that it’s basically never sunny in Denmark, or they have bought big wind turbines.
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