☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 days ago‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactorwww.scmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square36linkfedilinkarrow-up1154arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.mlenergy@slrpnk.nettechnology@lemmygrad.ml
arrow-up1154arrow-down1external-link‘No quick wins’: China has the world’s first operational thorium nuclear reactorwww.scmp.com☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square36linkfedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldworldnews@lemmy.mltechnology@lemmy.mlenergy@slrpnk.nettechnology@lemmygrad.ml
minus-squareHexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·6 days agoChinese firms are also building and deploying a few different ammonia fueled vessels - which can be produced from renewables anywhere you have a plant
minus-squarekalabaza [any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoDoes that work by combustion? Wouldn’t it emit tons of NOx?
minus-squareHexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoThe dual fuel one that is already around (achieved some milestone this year from memory) has an addictive or catalytic converter (Dual fuel because ammonia combusts poorly, but I’m pretty sure there’s a couple fuel cell ammonia prototype ships in development)
Chinese firms are also building and deploying a few different ammonia fueled vessels - which can be produced from renewables anywhere you have a plant
Does that work by combustion? Wouldn’t it emit tons of NOx?
The dual fuel one that is already around (achieved some milestone this year from memory) has an addictive or catalytic converter
(Dual fuel because ammonia combusts poorly, but I’m pretty sure there’s a couple fuel cell ammonia prototype ships in development)