Rethinking Sustainability in Our Food Production | Suzanne Andersen | TEDxWoodLane

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The speaker explores the critical role of synthetic fertilizers in feeding the global population and presents innovative technologies aimed at making fertilizer production more sustainable and CO2-neutral. By advocating for informed consumer choices and supportive climate policies, the talk encourages a balanced approach to agriculture that embraces the benefits of organic farming while acknowledging the necessity of synthetic fertilizers for global food security. Suzanne is the founding CEO of NitroVolt, a company focused on decarbonizing the nitrogen-based fertilizer industry and creating resiliency to the supply chain by giving control of the production of fertilizers to the farmers. Using their container-sized system, which only needs air, water, and renewable electricity to create sustainable nitrogen-based fertilizer on demand, the farmer gains self-suffiency. Suzanne has worked on this technology for the past 6.5 years during both her Ph.D. project and postdoctoral work in Physics and Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx