Posted on 06/24/2021 2:01:02 PM PDT by Jonty30
An energy currency is a means of reserving and transmitting energy and anhydrous ammonia (NH3) is the ideal energy currency for green electricity. In the human body, ATP (Adenosine TriPhosphate) is often considered a biological energy currency because it can either be consumed or stored, depending on the body’s needs. With respect to renewable power, an energy currency is basically the ability to put electricity into a bottle so that it can be stored when there is a surplus and used with there a shortage.
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My thought is that hydrocarbons will still be needed, but the ideal situation is going to be a mixture of solutions, with renewables, where appropriate like on mountain tops or some other hard to get to location, and hydrocarbons and nuclear for generating electricity for homes or e-bicycles and maybe ammonia for vehicles.
Ammonia has at least the ability to be transported and, if made industrially, we might be able to get the costs down to somewhere near what it costs to produce gas.
Yeah, nothing bad ever happens when anhydrous ammonia leaks. What could possibly go wrong?
Same as gasoline. There is not perfect solution.
I’m not strictly an environmentalist and would be fine with using hydrocarbons, because we have at least 10,000 years of hydrocarbons at current usage.
However, assuming that carbon really is a problem in the long-term, it’s good to ask whether or not that there are solutions.
And stone by stone they built it high, until the sun broke through
A ray of hope, a shining light, Ammonia Avenue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX64VlgP9j4
Well, this particular blog seems to think that the options are either anhydrous ammonia, hydrazine (!) and pure hydrogen peroxide.
If that particular mix is your entire range of choices, I guess ammonia might not be so bad.
But maybe they should keep looking for something a little less corrosive/poisonous/explosive? To be fair, if those are the criteria, hydrazine would be just about the perfect fuel!
Whatever happened to the claim that cars will run on water?
Well, at least if they choose hydrazine we’ll have a usable fuel for our personal spaceships as well.
We’re waiting on the UFOs to land and give us that technology.
The obvious and safest solution is nuclear energy.Nuclear plants can be made far safer now with much less waste product. But nuke is received with horror by the Left because it IS the cheapest and best. De-growth and de-population is the goal of the Left, not efficiency or clean safe growh and prosperity.
But you can’t carry a nuclear reactor in your car and there isn’t enough copper in the world to electrify the US for transportation purposes and lithium batteries are only about 6% as efficient as a gallon of gas.
I agree that nuclear is the best option on an industrial level, but for electricity, we are limited to powering our houses and not our cars.
Our small farm town had to be evacuated for 24 hours due to an anhydrous ammonia leak a few years back.
It’s not all sunshine and roses.
NOthing is. If you had a massive gasoline line leak, you might have to evacuate for a much longer period.
That’s just engineering.
Amazing that people never understand that the range of hydrocarbons from diesel oil to high octane gasoline constitute ideal fuels depending upon your specific application. But yeah, I see the attraction of hypergolic rocket fuels - so long as you keep it in your neighborhood and not mine.
The government put the water-fueled car right next to the 100 mpg carburetor.
It takes lots of energy to make Ammonia. Making ammonia from the Nitrogen in the air is an important first step in making fertilizer.
Hey, we stick with keralox in our house for all of our sub orbital needs. Keep that hydrazine away from me!
Unlikely, Ammonia’s profile is more dangerous on every measure.
Ammonia A - Compressed Gas; B1 - Flammable Gas; D1A - Very Toxic; E - Corrosive
Gasoline B2 - Flammable Liquid; D2A - Very Toxic
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/dec/17/floating-mini-nukes-could-power-countries-by-2025-says-startup
https://newatlas.com/energy/seaborg-floating-nuclear-reactor-barge/
etc.
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