caa a22 4500 60617057X CHVBK 20210128100718.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10098-014-0835-3 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10098-014-0835-3 Razon Luis De La Salle Food Institute, De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Malate, 0922, Manila, Philippines aut Is nitrogen fixation (once again) "vital to the progress of civilized humanity”? [Elektronische Daten] [Luis Razon] The world food supply has become dependent on synthetic fertilizer from ammonia, which comes from the Haber-Bosch process. This process consumes large amounts of fossil fuels and releases large amounts of greenhouse gases. The excessive use of synthetic fixed nitrogen fertilizers has led to severe environmental effects, but fixed nitrogen is essential to the sustainability of biofuels. Nitrogen fertilizers are also required for biotic carbon capture schemes like bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), afforestation, and soil carbon sequestration. Ammonia has been proposed as a non-carbon emitting alternative fuel that has many advantages over hydrogen. Organic agriculture and nitrogen recovery from waste streams may only partially reduce the demand for synthetic fixed nitrogen. Social solutions like population stabilization may be the best solution for the food supply problem, but ammonia is an enabling technology for alternative fuels and carbon sequestration. Alternative processes for nitrogen fixation are very early in development. This paper offers the viewpoint that alternative means of nitrogen fixation and the wise use of fixed nitrogen need to be developed quickly. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2014 Ammonia nationallicence Nitrogen fixation nationallicence Biofuels nationallicence Food security nationallicence Carbon sequestration nationallicence Nitrogen cycle nationallicence Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 17/2(2015-02-01), 301-307 1618-954X 17:2<301 2015 17 10098 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-014-0835-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 review-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-014-0835-3 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Razon Luis De La Salle Food Institute, De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Malate, 0922, Manila, Philippines aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy Springer Berlin Heidelberg 17/2(2015-02-01), 301-307 1618-954X 17:2<301 2015 17 10098