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by hinkley 970 days ago
Highly caustic to delicate tissues however, such as lung tissue.
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Undoubtedly, at the scales needed for seasonal energy storage, containment systems with multiple fail-safes would be needed. But if we can do that for nuclear reactors, it's got to be strictly simpler for ammonia.
Some early fridges ran on ammonia as the refrigerant. Didn’t survive scaling up to mass production. Neither has nuclear.