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TalusAg
TalusAg, the agriculture arm of Talus Renewables, builds modular, containerized systems that make green ammonia on-site from only water, air, and renewable electricity. By shrinking a process that normally requires billion-dollar plants into a shipping container, the company lets farmers and industrial users produce their own carbon-free fertilizer and fuel locally, cutting costs and supply-chain risk.
Nicolas Pinkowski
Nicolas Pinkowski is the Co-Founder and CEO of Nitricity, a Fremont, California-based clean energy company reinventing how nitrogen fertilizer is made. Armed with a Stanford PhD in Energy Systems, Pinkowski and his co-founders turned a backyard experiment on a lemon tree into a $95M-funded company producing organic nitrogen fertilizer from air, water, renewable electricity, and recycled almond shells. Their flagship product, Ash Tea, delivers 92% lower emissions than conventional fertilizers, has achieved OMRI certification, and has already generated over $150M in binding offtake agreements. Pinkowski was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2021 and is an Unreasonable Food Fellow (2024), leading Nitricity's expansion from California into global markets.