[Jonty30]

Is ammonia a good replacement for gasoline?

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.

[noiseman]

Yeah, nothing bad ever happens when anhydrous ammonia leaks. What could possibly go wrong?

[dfwgator]

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

[Hetuck]

[Valpal1]

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.

[null and void]

[Nateman]

It takes lots of energy to make Ammonia. Making ammonia from the Nitrogen in the air is an important first step in making fertilizer.

[Myrddin]

I finished installing and testing the new PA mikes on the Rosalie Marie tuna boat. The cook observed my departure and decided to make an inspection run. As I pulled into my company parking lot, I could hear traffic on marine VHF channel 16 requesting an ambulance at Rosalie Marie. The cook was on the catwalk between the fish wells to test that PA station. Below the catwalk was the anhydrous ammonia lines used to cool the fish well brine. An ammonia line blew. It killed the cook. Had I been flagged down to follow the cook inspecting the PA stations, I would not be writing about the incident.

[Clay Moore]

Ammonia is wicked stuff. My mom said she saw this accident in Houston TX in her rearview mirror.

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/In-1976-an-ammonia-truck-disaster-claimed-the-12906732.php

[Deaf Smith]

Billie Sol Estes gives a thumbs up for using ammonia as currency.