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Nitrogen is pulled out of the air which is free but the process requires hydrogen which is acquired from disassembled methane, the price of which is a significa
by colechristensen 6mo ago
Nitrogen is pulled out of the air which is free but the process requires hydrogen which is acquired from disassembled methane, the price of which is a significant contributor.
- 8note 6mo agoUS shale oil notably has a lot of natural gas - methane. the methane isnt the issue, building and operating the processing plants is
- colechristensen 6mo agoHard to find exact data but 60-80% of the cost to manufacture ammonia comes from the cost of natural gas. Feel free to look a price charts for both to see the correlation.
- bluGill 6mo agoLong term yes, however the building in such a plant is very expensive in the short term. As such, no one is going to build a plant unless they actually think it will have reasonably high utilization.