Hey fellas!
I was watching the news this morning and saw a segment on a guy in Canada who claims to be using wind power to synthesize ammonia and then use the ammonia as a hydrogen carrier in his ordinary internal combustion powered pick up truck.
When segment first came up, I thought he was using the ammonia in an absorption cycle or some sort of organic Rankine cycle...until he gave some very vague explanation of the ammonia as a hydrogen carrier.
He claimed that it is much safer than carrying H2 in the gas phase. Which I disagree with...Ammonia gas is very toxic and H2 is buoyant and would float away, but that's another discussion.
I try to keep up with what's going on in alternative energy, but this was new to me. Frankly, I don't buy it. Have any of you heard of this? Does anyone know what he's doing? It seems feasible, but I still can't help, but wonder if this is another free-energy scheme...
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