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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

I'm becoming less of a hydrogen guy and more of an ammonia guy. Liquid ammonia seems easier to deal with than hydrogen gas.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It is, but a leak could kill you. So 🤷‍♂️

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why not clean hydrogen? Just the handling issues?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years 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.

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