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Expect to see tankers of (lightly-compressed) liquified ammonia shuttling from solar farms in the tropics to high temperate latitudes in the winter. The advant
by ncmncm 5y ago
Expect to see tankers of (lightly-compressed) liquified ammonia shuttling from solar farms in the tropics to high temperate latitudes in the winter.
The advantage of ammonia as storage is that there will be no upper limit on demand for all the excess you can produce. If you build out 6x solar generating capacity, anytime your local energy storage is topped up, all your electrolysers are producing revenue.
You will only need enough local tankage to hold out until the next shipment arrives. If this seems fragile, consider that it is exactly how we use oil today.