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by entropicgravity 572 days ago
The future of shipping is ammonia. It has, pretty much, all the attributes of fossil fuels but being NH4 it doesn't produce an earth warming byproduct.
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lstodd 571 days ago
now imagine a leak of it.

fuel oil.. you just fence it off and scoop up.

ammonia.. evacuate the port and city

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entropicgravity 571 days ago
Studies have been done comparing gasoline vs. ammonia and while there are differences overall the dangers and mitigations are about the same.
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