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Re:Ammonia Combustion Engines (2021) by actionfromafar on Thursday October 20, 2022 @08:22AM (#33273547)
Global energy supply chain brittleness has come in the foreground recently due to war. I can imagine interest in seasonal storage.
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Re:Ammonia Combustion Engines (2021) by pencilguin on Thursday October 20, 2022 @10:05AM (#33274867)
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.

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Re:Ammonia Combustion Engines (2021) by franckl on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:26PM (#33279438)
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.
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Re:Ammonia Combustion Engines (2021) by pencilguin on Friday October 21, 2022 @04:48AM (#33285986)
Yes.

People using NG plants depend on reliably regular deliveries of NG. They should be equally willing to depend on regular deliveries of NH3.

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