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Lakeland Electric agrees to become first utility to pilot new liquid nitrogen generation

Lakeland Electric will be the first utility to test a new liquid nitrogen power generation system. The 5-megawatt pilot plant will be built and operated by American Independent Power at a Lakeland ...
CNN

An Alabama inmate was executed with nitrogen gas. How does it work?

Alabama inmate Kenneth Smith was put to death Thursday night, marking the nation’s first known execution using nitrogen gas. Smith, who was sentenced to death for his role in a 1988 murder for hire ...
The New York Times

The Alabama Execution Case: What We Know

Kenneth Eugene Smith was put to death by nitrogen gas on Thursday night, the first time the method was used in capital punishment in the U.S. By Anna Betts and Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Alabama carried ...
Ars Technica

Nitrogen-using bacteria can cut farms’ greenhouse gas emissions

Fritz Haber: good guy or bad guy? He won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1918 for his part in developing the Haber-Bosch process, a method for generating ammonia using the nitrogen gas in air. The ...
The New York Times

Alabama Carries Out First U.S. Execution by Nitrogen

The state executed Kenneth Smith on Thursday using the untested method of nitrogen hypoxia after the Supreme Court declined to intervene. By Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs and Abbie VanSickle Nicholas Bogel ...