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I didn't know that. It certainly is safer. Ammonia production, as I already mentioned in another reply, currently requires natural gas as as source of hydrogen
by chicob 4y ago
I didn't know that. It certainly is safer.
Ammonia production, as I already mentioned in another reply, currently requires natural gas as as source of hydrogen.
Regardless of its use as a way of storing energy, it is already a very important industrial ingredient. Namely for fertilizer production.
As I see it, the only major problem with the current technology is that it might not be adaptable to new sources. New plants would have to be built.
- moralestapia 4y agoMy bet is on ammonia but yeah the economics will get tricky as producers are going to ask themselves "will I get more money if I sell this as fertilizer or as fuel?" Kind of what happens with corn-based bioethanol, where they have to compete with the regular food market and viceversa.
- ncmncm 4y agoThere is no natural upper limit on ammonia produced. Add more panels, make more ammonia. The panels, placed intelligently, do not use up land needed for other things. Compare to bioethanol, strictly limited by acreage under cultivation.
- moralestapia 4y ago>There is no natural upper limit on ammonia produced. Weird, I've heard there's some fertilizer shortage going on ... Anyway, the point is why would sell ammonia as fuel for $20 when you could sell it as fertilizer for $40+.
- ncmncm 4y agoYou have maybe noticed that only a small fraction of our power is today generated from renewables? Supply will rise to meet demand.