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Drew Higgins

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Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, McMaster University

The International Renewable Energy Agency projects that global ammonia demand could approach 700 million tonnes a year by 2050, nearly four times more than what is produced today. (Unsplash)

June 30, 2026

Ammonia from wastewater: How we’re turning a pollutant into fertilizer and clean fuel

Navid Noor, McMaster University and Drew Higgins, McMaster University

Scientific and engineering breakthroughs are allowing us to make ammonia from pollution rather than fossil fuels.

Long the industry standard, lithium-ion batteries come with considerable drawbacks that limit their widescale adoption as the grid-energy storage medium of choice. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jeff McIntosh

September 12, 2023

How zinc‑ion batteries may solve our renewable energy storage problem

Storm William D Gourley, McMaster University and Drew Higgins, McMaster University

Lithium-ion batteries are holding back the full-scale decarbonization of Canada’s energy grid. Zinc-ion batteries may be the solution.

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