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by photochemsyn 1514 days ago
Just making ammonia without natural gas to meet the needs of the global fertilizer market would be difficult enough I imagine. Also, the notion that you'd easily burn NH3 + O2 -> H2O + N2 seems questionable, isn't a lot of NOx (a nasty air pollutant leading to PAN and really bad air pollution) also going to be generated?
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Already being done. We just need a great deal more of it.

Natural gas burners inject ammonia to cut their NOx output. Maybe they know something.