December 5, 2025
This startup makes ammonia by turning the planet into a chemical reactor
Forbes features Addis Energy, a startup aiming to use the Earth itself as a chemical reactor to make ammonia in a cleaner way.
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Addis Energy's co-founders: Iwnetim Abate, Yet-Ming Chiang, Michael Alexander, and Charlie Mitchell.
Credit: Addis Energy
Addis Energy, a startup co-founded by Professor Yet-Ming Chiang, is using the earth “as a chemical reactor to make ammonia in a cleaner way,” reports Alex Knapp for Forbes. The team identifies “rocky formations underground with large amounts of iron,” explains Knapp. “Then they inject those rocks with water, nitrogen and a chemical catalyst. That causes the oxygen in the water to bind with the iron in the rocks—making rust—freeing the hydrogen, which reacts with nitrogen to form ammonia.”
Read more in Forbes.
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