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Re:Ammonia as a fuel for compression ignition engines by Gibbon1 on Saturday August 22, 2020 @12:37AM (#24241577)
What I think is a lot of this is put out there as an attempt sideline workable technologies to keep the fossil fuel party going. 'Clean coal' 'Carbon Capture' 'Next Generation Reactors' 'Hydrogen economy' all unworkable trash.
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Re:Ammonia as a fuel for compression ignition engines by neltnerb on Saturday August 22, 2020 @11:58AM (#24244965)
I agree, I won't name and shame but the grant I was working on was clearly funded by some coal lobby or something because the premise was desperate on the face of it.

I practically said "this won't work efficiently, you should just not burn the coal" because nothing else could be justified energetically even if it was maybe economical. I tried my best but I can't change thermodynamics.

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