空气的炼金术
The Alchemy of Air
Thomas Hager · 初版 2008 年
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为什么值得读
- 详述哈伯-博施法从空气中固氮的技术突破
- 展现科学发现如何降低粮食成本并改变农业格局
- 呈现技术突破背后在能耗与产出上的工程权衡
一部展现悲剧天才、尖端科学以及改变数十亿人（包括你我）生命的重大发现的波澜壮阔之作。二十世纪之初，人类正面临一场全球性灾难。长期以来预言的由人口激增引发的普遍大饥荒即将成为现实。全世界的科学家受到召唤去寻找解决方案。这是一个关于两位天赋异禀却有着致命缺陷的人的故事：才华横溢而自负的 Fritz Haber，与孤僻且酗酒的 Carl Bosch。他们共同发现了一种从空气中制造面包的方法，建造了城市般规模的工
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如果想看一个很有趣的切入视角，我推荐读读《空气的炼金术》（The Alchemy of Air）。这本书并不是专门讲两次世界大战的，而是讲哈伯-博施法（Haber-Bosch process）背后的研发历程，正是这项工艺让人类能够从空气中提取氮来合成氨……
For an interesting take on this, I'd recommend reading The Alchemy of Air. It's not specifically about either of the world wars. It's about the work that led to the discovery of the Haber-Bosch process that makes it possible to produce ammonia by extracting nitrogen from the…
……每年依然能节约超过 3 亿兆瓦时的能耗，顺带的好处是让全球粮食价格大幅降低，因为氮是农业中成本最高的部分之一。我强烈推荐《空气的炼金术》这本书，讲的是哈伯-博施法的诞生过程。http://www.amazon.com/The-Alchemy-Air-Scientific-Discovery/d... 副标题其实有点埋没这本书了，但固氮技术很可能是现代最关键的……
…still a savings of over 300 million megawatt hours annually with the added benefit of cheaper food worldwide since nitrogen is one of the largest costs in agriculture. I highly recommend the book, "The Alchemy of Air" about the creation of the Haber-Bosch process. http://www.amazon.com/The-Alchemy-Air-Scientific-Discovery/d... The subtitle doesn't do the book justice, but fixing nitrogen might be the most important…
容我插一句，托马斯·哈格（Thomas Hager）写的一本叫《空气的炼金术》的妙书，对 19 世纪末的这个确切问题讲得非常透彻。编辑：刚才在用手机，现在补点剧透。这本书（连同哈格的另一本《The……
If I may, a wonderful book called “The Alchemy of Air” by Thomas Hager is a very enlightening book on this very same issue during the late 1800s. EDIT: I was mobile earlier but wanted to throw a bit of a teaser in here. This book (along with Hager's "The…
……能耗和产出率全都在考量范围内，最终结果绝非简简单单往反应釜里扔点磁铁矿粉那么简单。关于这项工艺研发历程有一本很棒的书《空气的炼金术》https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Air-Jewish-Scientific-Discove...
…energy, and output rate were all considerations and the result was much more than just throwing some magnetite powder in a reaction chamber. There's a great book on the development of the process The Alchemy of Air https://www.amazon.com/Alchemy-Air-Jewish-Scientific-Discove...
……袭击。”通过哈伯-博施法利用大气中的 N2 合成氨的发明，在很大程度上终结了鸟粪产业以及支撑它的奴隶劳动。托马斯·哈格写过一本很棒的书《空气的炼金术》，把这段历史讲得很透：https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/turning-air-into-bread
…raids." The invention of ammonia synthesis from atmospheric N2 via the Haber-Bosch process largely put an end to the guano industy and the slave labor that supported it. There's an excellent book, "The Alchemy of Air" by Thomas Hager that covers this history well: https://blog.rootsofprogress.org/turning-air-into-bread
托马斯·哈格写的《空气的炼金术》。这本书涵盖了化肥的发现、它的战略意义（当时它就相当于现在的石油），以及德国发明用于生产化肥和火药的哈伯-博施法的过程……
"The Alchemy of Air" by Thomas Hager. This covers the discovery of fertilizer, its strategic implications (it was the oil of its day), the creation in Germany of the Haber-Bosch process for producing fertilizer and gunpowder…