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by beanjuice 1465 days ago
To add on to this comment for anyone curious about ammonia: Green ammonia production is among the top 10 emerging technologies in chemistry in 2021 [1,2]. The Haber-Bosch process consumes 1% of the worlds global energy, and generates 1.4% of the worlds carbon dioxide [3].

That being said there is a lot of research both to generate ammonia from green energy, and the work to harvest ammonia for use as a fuel cell would benefit as a secondary emergent technology.

[1] https://iupac.org/what-we-do/top-ten/ [2] https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ci-2021-0404/... [3] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41929-019-0414-4