Re:Ammonia Combustion Engines (2021)
by actionfromafar on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:22AM
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Global energy supply chain brittleness has come in the foreground recently due to war. I can imagine interest in seasonal storage.
Re:Ammonia Combustion Engines (2021)
by pencilguin on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:05AM
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Practically everyone imports what they need, at need, today. Only pipelines have lately been considered a problem. "Strategic N"
Inventing new demands on renewables would seem to amount to special pleading.
But this is not the only place where I see people honestly believing that seasonal storage would be desirable and important. I hope they are not, in the end, disappointed by slack demand.
The long term goal is to replace NG. What we are building is the functional equivalent to a natural gas fired powerplant, without the CO2 emissions.
Re:Ammonia Combustion Engines (2021)
by pencilguin on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:48AM
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Yes.
People using NG plants depend on reliably regular deliveries of NG. They should be equally willing to depend on regular deliveries of NH3.
It seems more likely that most users will prefer to import ammonia from tropical solar farms, and keep local tankage of just a couple of weeks' worth. It is hard to imagine where seasonal storage would be needed.