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If you can acquire hydrogen economically, it can be converted to ammonia cheaply. For many industrial processes, ammonia is a well-established common feedstock

If you can acquire hydrogen economically, it can be converted to ammonia cheaply. For many industrial processes, ammonia is a well-established common feedstock, having none of the issues of hydrogen you mention. Here in Japan, some Combined Cycle Gas Turbine plants are already running with 10% ammonia blend. I think you are right about pure hydrogen, but I can see green-hydrogen-into-ammonia as viable for many applications including heavy transportation (train, ship, truck). We just need much more economic electrolysis, because hydrogen is almost always produced from fossil fuels today.

nickik 5y ago
I learned about this only 10 years ago and then it was to late already, but had they started to convert to Flex-Fuel Vehicle in the 90s it would have meant much cheaper fuel in the 2000s (because natural gas to methanol is cheap and gas was cheap). Plus you could easily replace it with solar produced methanol overtime. EV however killed the need for that for the most part. Today I don't really think synfuels have much of a application. Batteries and storing energy electrically will win. It will not be so long until you can basically do Iron-Silicon battery for a very cheap price. Or if we finally figure Sulfer we could have amazing batteries for super cheap.