PhD scientist checking in...
Ammonia stores more hydrogen by mass and in smaller volume as a liquid at room temp than hydrogen does as a cryogenic liquid at 4 degrees above absolute zero. Its the ideal hydrogen storage medium. It us handled everyday all over the world in millions of tonne per year quantities. Its not for home use the average person is an idiot and will burn their lungs out eventually, but with proper OSHA procedures and safe guards its perfectly safe for industrial use.
https://arpa-e.energy.gov/technologies/projects/wind-energy-ammonia-synthesis
https://www.powermag.com/mitsubishi-power-developing-100-ammonia-capable-gas-turbine/
https://e360.yale.edu/features/from-fertilizer-to-fuel-can-green-ammonia-be-a-climate-fix
These are the two largest manufacturers of marine diesels what they do the entire industry will.follow.
https://www.man-es.com/discover/two-stroke-ammonia-engine
https://www.argusmedia.com/en/news/2234110-wartsila-targets-ammoniaready-engine-in-2023
Be vewee vewee cahfull.
Lol, without exact conditions the emissions of those engines is N2O. That should make us all seem real happy...
Happy to see someone who’s educated on the subject and handing out good information. Thanks!
I’m most decidedly NOT educated in that field, but I had always hoped we’d exploit hydrogen as a fuel in vehicles, and if this is a viable medium, you know the government will try to sweep it under the rug. They’ve already invested too much into other alternatives, if you can even call them that at this point given affordability of the product and the current “refueling” infrastructure, to want to invest in something else.
If people knew how truly environmentally unfriendly the mining for the metals in those batteries really is, the greenies would lose their collective sh!t. Kind of like how solar panels are prone to breakage and short life spans (incrementally creating less energy every year, plus a total lack of overall effectiveness), and how the blades of those windmills also have short life spans, and need to be dumped somewhere when they fall apart. They can’t exactly be refurbisbed and reused just for safety reasons alone.
Liquid ammonia, not ammonium hydroxide, requires refrigeration for storage and manufacturing, but nowhere near the amount of refrigeration needed for liquid hydrogen. I know this because I prepared some in freshman chemistry lab decades ago.