EI:
In Nelson Mandela Bay, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, thousands of hectares of land could one day become the world’s largest green ammonia plant.
Ammonia, which is made up of nitrogen and hydrogen, is commonly used as a fertilizer. In the early 1910s scientists devised a way to synthesize it, but before then, the main agricultural fertilizer was guano, bat or bird excrement, which had to be obtained from tropical islands and was in short supply.
Production of ammonia at an industrial scale allowed agriculture to boom, and according to a study from the University of Manitoba, without it, we wouldn’t be able to produce roughly half of the world’s food today.
Ammonia is also used to manufacture explosives for the mining industry and is a key ingredient in many pharmaceutical and cleaning products. Currently, its production mainly involves fossil fuels and is responsible for 1.8% of global CO2 emissions. But by using renewable energy, “green” ammonia can be manufactured, slashing the carbon footprint of agricultural production and opening up the compound to further uses.
Prominent among them is the use of ammonia as fuel, which could help decarbonize the shipping sector. It is what the Mandela Bay plant will focus on. “It’ll start replacing heavy fuel oils on ships and it’ll replace diesel. That will become the fuel of the future, particularly in the maritime industry,” says Colin Loubser, managing director of Hive Energy Africa, which is building the plant. more
IT’S PEOPLE!!! THEY’RE USING PEOPLE!!!
If it was that great we would already be doing it.
The engines that use it are still under development?
Sounds like another green energy money laundering/enrichment scheme.
And who’s paying for this, US?
It’ll probably take more ‘fossil’ fuel to create the ammonia that the energy the ammonia produces.
I dunno. Not getting my hopes up. How many times have we seen variations of this claim in the last 30 years? Hope I’m wrong this time.
Ammonia can be pretty damn deadly.
Good thing no one will have a car, because that sure would amp up the highway death toll.
https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/poison/ammonia-poisoning
South Africa can’t keep the lights on. They are going to produce the energy of the future? “Come on man”
https://www.cfr.org/in-brief/will-south-africas-power-crisis-sink-its-green-ambitions
…for example…
“Ammonia
Flinn Scientific, Inc. P.O. Box 219, Batavia, IL 60510 (800) 452-1261
Chemtrec Emergency Phone Number: (800) 424-9388
Signal Word
WARNING
SECTION 2 — HAZARDS IDENTIFICATION
Hazard class: Acute toxicity, inhalation (Category 5). May be harmful if inhaled (H333).
Hazard class: Skin corrosion or irritation (Category 3). Causes mild skin irritation (H316).
Hazard class: Serious eye damage or irritation (Category 2B). Causes eye irritation (H320).”
…but you can’t wash it down the drain…
“SECTION 12 — ECOLOGICAL INFORMATION
Acutely toxic to aquatic species.”
https://www.flinnsci.com/sds_46-ammonia/sds_46/
…so this is the fuel they would use for home gas generators? In cars? ON OCEANGOING VESSELS IN QUANTITIES OF TONS?
…good luck with that.
Oh, and don’t use it for the transport of or store it around or use it around bleach.
Unless you WANT to kill everyone in the building and downwind…
https://cen.acs.org/safety/consumer-safety/Accidental-mix-bleach-acid-kills/97/i45
…yep, sAfE aNd EfFeCtIvE all over again, these folks SURE know what they’re doing…/s
Thousands of hectares? 1000 hectares is 2471 acres. So they are going to obviously be using solar panels to cover how many thousands of acres to supposedly generate electricity in sufficient amounts to generate x tons of NH4. Color me skeptical. As was asked, who is providing funding? China? US? Who provides the panels? China. Who will benefit the most? The new colonizers of Africa – China.
Sounds like a weapons material plant disguised as a fictional energy plant..
In the 70’s, I worked with Anhydrous Ammonia for agricultural purposes for 2 growing seasons. Filling nurse tanks from the main tank. The Nurse tanks were used to inject Anhydrous in the fields.
You can make one mistake, it could be your last.
Extremely Dangerous to say the least.
How many btu’s compared to oil? Why not focus on agriculture and food production?
You can make ethanol out of waste products.
We instead subsidize the farmers (kickbacks to the politicians) to use a food crop.
And it will controlled by… you guessed it China
Wait.
Haven’t they been saying electricity is the fuel of the future?
On the positive side you nay sayers! Ammonia can be
used to make high grade Meth……
Anybody with an ounce of intelligence wouldn’t invest that much money in a corrupt country like SA. It’ll never happen.
Sounds like they’re actually building an explosives factory.