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DIFFER researchers found an alternative sustainable, all-electric way to produce ammonia from nitrogen and water. Ammonia is an important precursor of fertilizers, as well as a potential carbon-free energy carrier. The researchers published this method in the journal ACS Energy Letters.

TNO, Utrecht University (UU), and DIFFER will set up new national research communities to speed up the energy transition. NWO funded three projects aimed at spatial planning, future energy infrastructure, and the business challenge for the energy transition.

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In order to be CO2 neutral by 2050, significant upscaling of technology and intensification of research and innovation in hydrogen and green chemistry will be needed in the coming years.

It was a practical with a calorimeter – how do you heat up a litre of water – during the physics open day, which caused Matthijs van Berkel to decide not to study physics. ‘I found heating up water quite dull.