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Actually, you can manufacture ammonia from just water, air, and electricity. And ammonia not only has great uses (right now we burn a huge ammount of NatGas to
by kurthr 4y ago
Actually, you can manufacture ammonia from just water, air, and electricity. And ammonia not only has great uses (right now we burn a huge ammount of NatGas to make it) in agriculture, but it's quite energy/space efficient for shipping. We already ship quite a bit of liquified ammonia (<200 psi at >100F). If you have a lot of "free" energy in the ocean it makes sense to make/store/ship ammonia on the spot.
- rr888 4y agoThanks, with solar and wind there do seem many times when there is a surplus of energy. I'm thinking somethings like water cracking to H, Aluminium smelting or Steel Furnaces could be done with such supluses but Ammonia sounds like a good one for the list too.
- ncmncm 4y agoAll of it will happen at the same time, different places.
- ncmncm 4y agoThis of course also enables storage for delivery of power at night. I think there is some physical-chemical development work left to do for maximally efficient commodity-grade solid-state fuel cells that work with ammonia and air, but it is eminently doable today. In the meantime, you can burn ammonia in combined-cycle turbines where NG is burned now.