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There is an implicit expectation that numerous tropical solar farms will produce anhydrous ammonia for export, both as fuel for shipping and to back up intermit
by angiosperm 3y ago
There is an implicit expectation that numerous tropical solar farms will produce anhydrous ammonia for export, both as fuel for shipping and to back up intermittent temperate sources, and for traditional uses in industry and agriculture.
There is a chicken-and-egg problem for the ammonia economy.
- defrost 3y agoDon't forget the very real sidebar into the hundred billion per annum iron ore industry that's driving the use of ammonia as a fuel replacement for truck fleets, power generation and shipping transport. It's not so much an implicit expectation as a explicit forward plan by the same parties who are buying up cattle stations next to the mines they own | operate to generate power and ammonia for their own ends.
- ZeroGravitas 3y agoWhat do you see as the chicken and egg problem? As you stated there are many current uses for Ammonia. The core problem is getting the price of green Ammonia lower than Ammonia production that vents the CO2, so that market mechanisms can kick in. The main solution is likely regulatory. Carbon (border) taxes on the alternative, incentives for green hydrogen production, ever increasing quotas for percentage of green Ammonia produced and consumed, corporations trying to hit decarbonisation goals etc.