• CrimeDad@lemmy.crimedad.work
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    11 months ago

    Yeah that’s a problem. However, it might make more sense on balance if we have big nuclear power plants generating clean ammonia while off peak electric demand.

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        11 months ago

        Ammonia is wayyyyyyyy easier to store and contains more hydrogen. Pity about the environmental and health dangers

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        11 months ago

        You don’t have to store liquid ammonia under high pressure and it has a higher energy density by volume than hydrogen. Also, ammonia is already very useful beyond energy storage, such as for fertilizer. Maybe a hybrid system is the way to go, with hydrogen for smaller consumer applications and ammonia for larger industrial ones. I don’t know if there’s good way to produce ammonia directly by electrolysis yet, so the ammonia might still have to be derived from hydrogen anyway.