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Synthetic ammonia will come from electric synthetic ammonia production plants. A few production-scale plants are already under construction, but of course hundr
by moloch-hai 4y ago
Synthetic ammonia will come from electric synthetic ammonia production plants. A few production-scale plants are already under construction, but of course hundreds more will be needed. Ammonia will not be, primarily, a storage medium, but a transportation medium and fuel, although it stores well under light pressure. Any tropical country can put up a solar farm and begin exporting ammonia to places less blessed with reliable sunshine -- for fertilizer, at first.
Insisting technologies that people are already spending billions of dollars on building out were not first shown to be viable is a peculiar position to take.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoEfficiency of producing Ammonia is 15%? How is this ever going to be practical?
- moloch-hai 4y agoWhen marginal cost of energy is zero, other things than energy efficiency become more important. But where is this 15% figure coming from?
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoYou are assuming a very ideal scenario, which is dangerous. Even so, do you have another figure? This is a complex molecule, it is naturally inefficient to produce compared to hydrogen, which is below 50%.
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