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It's the methanol of electric energy...
Its energetic content is about 21.000 kj/kg in hydrogen...
Hydrogen is the fuel of high efficiency(around 50-60%) systems as fuel cells and turbogas so ammonia can be considered a diesel that has an efficiency of 25-30%.
What do you think about?

beev wrote:Coal is one of the reasons why I'm not about to panic. If all the oil ran out tomorrow, coal and carbon-rationing would get us through. It's not great for the environment, but it's better than starving!

The problem would be evident if there were not fossil fuels and nuclear plants...

Ammonia seems a great thing... Also it can be produced in the night from nuclear plants... France would produce around 10 million tonnes of ammonia in the night if its nuclear power is constant... But if someone doesn't know it then it can be much toxic... Surely ships already can use ammonia with t...

The trouble is "A little sacrifice of the forest means a lot of energy..." quickly turns into "We all want our share of the cash" and all the forest disappears. The forest would be a natural park if the nations have the intention to save it... A natural park cannot be used to gr...

One of the main areas of life post peak we are going to have to solve (other than by dying off as per the doomers) is how to keep warm. Given that we are going to be in a bidding war for the last dregs of oil/gas I suspect many of us are going to go for electric heating. Since dissuaded a month or ...

Umm, yes, no economy, but what is there? Trees? Peat? Indigenous characters who happen to use some particular weed for curing some otherwise-incurable illness? I mean, a lot of the Siberian forest has no economy, but we'd all be stuffed without it. It's sufficient 1/8 of Brazil (about 100 million h...

These lands are 70 million hectares without economy... There is only some woodcutter... 10 million hectares of sugar cane can modify Mozambique economy without creating environmental problems... Sure, I am saying about bagasse form sugar cane... Today a lot of studies are saying that it's possible t...

Although it solves the storage problem, doesn't the problem of clean green hydrogen production remain? Ammonia containes around 3000 kwh/m3... so variable energy sources(wind, sun, variable hydro energy, etc...) have the possibility to be converted directly to ammonia fuel... The North of India has...

This is a new industrial process(lca process) to produce ammonia... It's highly efficient... (around 65%) Mt is for Metric Tonne = 1000 kg With this process 1 kg of ammonia totally requires about 8.12 kwh of energy... (ouput energy/input energy = around 0.65 ) Links: http://www.psaplants.com/fertili...

Thailand is an example of how a poor nation can benefit from biofuels... It exports sugar(it has a great market thanks to biofuels...) and utilizes bagasse to produce around 5 % of its electric energy... If.. dry bagasse give around 12 Mj/kg of heat then an hectare would can produce more than 15 000...