Floating solar farms could make fuel and help solve the climate crisis

Re:Floating solar farms could make fuel and help solve the c... by baybal2 on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @04:39PM (#20348530)

Electrochemical direct synthesis of ammonia is not efficient.

Were somebody to do that, that somebody would assuredly be waiting for that year's Nobel.

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Re:Floating solar farms could make fuel and help solve the c... by ncmncm on Wednesday July 03, 2019 @05:15PM (#20348870)

There has been immense progress in ammonia synthesis catalysts, in recent years. There should be a Nobel for them, but I doubt it will happen.

For small-scale production, practicalities of providing chemically pure nitrogen and hydrogen may be gating factors, rather than actual synthesis.

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