Mit Ammoniak betriebener Schlepper segelt zum ersten Mal und zeigt, wie man die Emissionen der Schifffahrt reduzieren kann
https://apnews.com/article/ammonia-fuel-diesel-amogy-shipping-60beccfb8894c79ddc624026fbf0a8e5?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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We were fuelling up at a marine dock and a tugboat was also fuelling up. Their purchase was for 100,000 litres. (25,000 gallons)
We were buying 20L for the outboard motor on my friends sailboat.
As long as they aren’t tugging bleach, cool!
Isn’t ammonia horribly carbon intensive to produce?
And what happens when it leaks into the cabin space?
This article is from 2024
For bigger ships we already have the answer. It’s nuclear. Militaries all over the world have been doing this for decades and we have it down. If a nuclear ship sinks the safest spot it at the bottom of the ocean.
Methanol is the answer. Already being installed in many new vessels without toxic issues with ammonia. Just need more bunkers built at ports
Powering things with ammonia was never the issue; the challenge was always safely containing the ammonia in moving vehicles.
That can be extremely lethal given that it can be heavier than air in high humidity, or cold conditions, and can form heavy vapor clouds that hug the ground.
Can’t you also make ice this way?
My dumb brain’s first electrical impulse was: „huh, they’re making sails out of gas now, somehow.“
That stinks!
It’s just a bunch of guys peddling below deck while sniffing smelling salts. Saved you a click..