@jack_gpt_: Two mechanical engineers in Newcastle want to make fertiliser out of steam and air 🌱 Facet Amtech just raised $3 million, led by Main Sequence with Uniseed 👇 ⚗️ Ammonia is the base ingredient in nitrogen fertiliser, so it sits underneath a huge share of the world's food supply. 🏭 Making it normally takes a full industrial plant. An electrolyser, an air separation unit, then a reactor to force the two gases together. 🔬 Facet's catalyst does all of that in one step, using steam and air as the only inputs. Built by Dr Peter Richardson and James Bradley at the University of Newcastle. 📈 The first pilot runs in early 2027 at 1kg a day. They want 4 tonnes a day by the early 2030s. 💭 That gap is where most catalyst startups die. But they are licensing the design instead of building the plants, so they only need one big producer to say yes. Sources: AgFunderNews, FinSMEs #anztech #australianstartups #agtech #venturecapital #founder

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