Dr. Raymond Laflamme at the Industry, Science and Technology Committee

On March 29th, 2022. See this statement in context.

March 29th, 2022 / 5:20 p.m.

Professor of Physics, Canada Research Chair in Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, As an Individual

That's a very good question and one of the ones that the quantum computer might help us to answer.

What's the nitrogen fixation problem? It's turning what we get out of the ground into fertilizers that are useful, and it turns out that takes about 3% or 4% of the energy budget of the world. If we can improve this by 50%, we can reduce the energy budget of the world by a few per cent, which would make a dramatic impact on things like global warming.

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