image credit: Microsoft Create TL&DR: ammonia is a toxic and corrosive gas, and using it as a fuel aboard ships fails the 1st principle of safety in design. It is an insane idea, and those pushing this toxic idea should give their heads a serious shaking. I am a chemical engineer with many decades of […]
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E-Methane: Exergy Destroyer, On Steroids
TL&DR: grinding up electricity to make heating fuel is just a way to waste energy and capital, by destroying exergy (the potential to do thermodynamic work). It’s obviously worse than just making hydrogen. It is wasteful, and wasteful means expensive. It also means higher emissions than if you did something sensible, like feeding a heatpump. […]