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by danans 970 days ago
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.
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Some early fridges ran on ammonia as the refrigerant. Didn’t survive scaling up to mass production. Neither has nuclear.