Liquid Ammonia Fuel and Model Sustainable Cities

Perhaps a number of you recall Mr. Shields’s blog posts regarding ammonia fuel from a few months ago. I believe there is also a reference to ammonia in “Renewable Energy: Facts and Fantasies” during the interview with Matt Simmons.

I would like to thank Craig Shields for inviting me to post as a guest blogger here at 2GreenEnergy in order that I can post any original thinking that I may have regarding ammonia and green energy. The invitation had its roots in that I had referred Mr. Shields to Bill Leighty for more information about ammonia fuel. And I will very likely soon be an intern with the NH3 Fuel Association, which is the new name for the Ammona Fuel Network.

For those who like like the link to my “Model Sustainable Cities” website for my most public work, it can be found at http://modelsustainablecities.weebly.com.

But aside from my introduction and link, the content of my original thinking is an observed geographical location wherein I believe ammonia technologies may be appropriately deployed. I refer to the idea as a “Renewable Ammonia Corridor Value Cycling Engine.” Its foundation is an anchoring ammonia pipeline, which is an extension of Bill Leighty’s proposed Iowa positioning of the “International Renewable Hydrogen Transmission Demonstration Facility.” This geography is also suggested by the southernmost diagonal of ITC Holdings’s “Green Power Express” network of high voltage transmission lines. In essence, I suggest using ammonia pipeline to reach up into the Great Plains Wind Corridor and do part of the task that the high voltage transmission lines were proposed to do.

But I also suggest adding in a few smart microgrids at cities along the geography to encourage model sustainable cities to grow at these points, using ammonia as a primary energy carrier, fuel, and electricity/energy storage medium. And an added bonus is that this rural geography has markets for agricultural utilization of renewable ammonia as a fertilizer, primarily for corn in this instance.

Lest I get too verbose in this post, I’ll see what comments may come along, and add more to this discussion as it progresses. Thanks, again, Craig for this space in which to share a few ideas.

Regards,
Daniel Miller